James Cawley (born June 22, 1969) is an American politician who served as the 32nd Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015 as a Republican and is the most recent to hold that position as of 2025.

[1] Prior to being elected to the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, he was chief of staff to State Senator Tommy Tomlinson.

Incumbent Democratic State Representative Anthony Melio won re-election by defeating Cawley 56%–42%.

[2] He was also a former Pennsylvania state chairman and national co-chairman of the College Republicans and served as an elected member of the Bristol Township School Board.

[1] In 2010, he ran for the state lieutenant governor and won the Republican primary in a crowded nine candidate field with just 26% of the vote.

He was Governor Corbett's running mate again in the general election on November 4, 2014, in which the Republican ticket was defeated by the Democrats Tom Wolf and Mike Stack.