Julia Fullerton

Party: Republican, Incumbent

Age: 32

Hometown: DeKalb

Education: J.D. from the NIU College of Law

Career: Director of intellectual property for an international, non-profit association; former Executive Director of the American Veterinary Medical Law Association, a not-for-profit group

Main Goals/Priorities:

Adopting changes to the County Board rules made this year to enable Board meetings to be recorded and archived for public view.

Evaluating the necessity of each individual project the Board oversees and its value to the DeKalb County community.

Creating reasonable incentives to bring employers to DeKalb County and the promotion of existing commercial enterprises.

Maintaining fiscal responsibility and scrutiny of all financial expenditures.

Supporting a lean fiscal year 2012 budget.

Implementing measures to keep farming viable and the promotion of agricultural tourism.

Marc Johnson

Party: Democrat

Age: 35

Hometown: Sycamore

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Roosevelt University

Career: Writer, individual music instructor

Main Goals/Priorities:

Creating an environment to help foster sustainable growth.

Supporting local businesses.

Focusing on agricultural independence.

Fighting the growth of residential property taxes.

Carefully managing infrastructure projects.

Scott Newport

Party: Republican, Incumbent

Age: 47

Hometown: DeKalb

Education: Bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Master’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Career: Farm business specialist for the Illinois Valley Farm Business Farm Management Association (FBFM)

Main Goals/Priorities:

Supporting the development of a long-term plan to improve the weight capacity of county roads as other counties have done.

Encouraging economic development in DeKalb County by assisting in creating an environment that is attractive to businesses.

Maintaining lower taxes.

Keeping crime rates low.

Supporting strong infrastructure that is free of excessive regulation.

Advocating an open and transparent government through the support of changes to the county website.