Deidre Marie Henderson (née Ellingford; born September 4, 1974)[3] is an American politician serving as the ninth lieutenant governor of Utah since January 4, 2021.

[6][7] In 2012, Henderson was selected from two candidates by the Republican convention and ran unopposed for the State Senate in the November 6, 2012 general election, winning with 27,257 votes.

[11] Henderson did not have a undergraduate degree before entering politics; she attended college, but stopped after marrying and having children.

In 2014, while serving in the state senate, she began pursuing a bachelor's degree in history from Brigham Young University, which she continued after becoming lieutenant governor.

[13] On March 19, 2020, Henderson was selected as the running mate of incumbent lieutenant governor Spencer Cox in the 2020 Utah gubernatorial election Republican primary.