Rebecca Noecker

Saint Paul City Council, Ward 2

Paula Cole

Richfield School Board

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Crystal Brakke 

Richfield School Board

Avonna Starck

Fridley School Board

Mary Jo McGuire

Ramsey County Commissioner

Mary Jo McGuire was first elected to the Ramsey County Board in 2012 and serves as the chair of the Legislative Committee and Active Living Ramsey Communities. She is also a member of the Transportation Advisory Board and a number of outside boards and committees including the Roseville Community Foundation and Northeast Youth and Family Services.  She is also an active member of the Roseville Rotary.

Mary Jo is a lifelong resident of Ramsey County. She graduated from Ramsey High School, St. Catherine University, Hamline School of Law and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. McGuire served for 16 years in the State Legislature and has worked as a civic educator and public policy consultant. She is an adjunct professor in the graduate program of organizational leadership (MAOL) at St. Catherine University.

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Anne Marcotte

Aitkin County Commissioner, District

Sheila Kiscaden

Olmsted County Commissioner

Sheila was first elected Olmstead County District 6 Commissioner in 2012. Before becoming Comissioner, Sheila served four terms in the Minnesota Senate from 1993-2006. She is a community volunteer and leader in Rochester, having founded the Beat the Odds Scholarship Program at Rochester Community and Technical College, launched the Rochester Issues Forum, and formed the local Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Program. As a member of the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce, Sheila is in touch with the needs of local business owners and a successful champion of Rochester and Olmstead County initiatives. Sheila is an advocate for balanced budgets, respect for personal rights, and limiting the intrusion of government into personal choices.

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Toni Carter

Ramsey County Commissioner

Toni Carter was first elected Ramsey County Commissioner in 2005. Toni is the first African-American to serve on a County Board in Minnesota. She was first elected to the Board in 2005. As a former teacher and chair of the Saint Paul Board of Education, Toni makes decisions that benefit the youth of her community. She was an advocate for programs that benefit children in less advantaged neighborhoods, such as the Saint Paul Children’s Collaborative and the Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood. She also helped to create the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, which expanded options for disciplining low-risk youth. Toni championed the building of the Central Corridor Green Line Light Rail to make jobs more easily accessible, bringing new people to neighborhoods along University Avenue, and to keep people and communities connected. In her spare time, Toni stays active on a number of community boards and acts at the Penumbra Theatre.

Kathleen Gaylord

Dakota County Commissioner

Kathleen Gaylord has served as Dakota County Commissioner since 2003. Before serving on the County Board, Kathleen was mayor of South St Paul. Kathleen is recognized for her expertise in finance, transportation, and tax policy and for her strong advocacy for taxpayers, seniors and families. In 2014 she cut property taxes in the Dakota county such that it now has the lowest county tax rate in the metro. Kathleen also helped create the “Circuit Breaker” income-based property tax relief system. Kathleen is a practicing attorney and a former regional manager of Properties and Facilities for Northwest Airlines. As the chair of the Public Affairs Committee for the Air Transportation Association in Washington, D.C., Kathleen learned to lobby lawmakers for policy that helped the transportation industry. 

Patricia Torres Ray

State Senate

Representing: Senate District 63

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