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Meet Kathy Heuer

Rep. Heuer is a former small business owner of several retail stores in Columbia City and Warsaw, and is a graduate of Indiana  University. She is a real estate broker associate with Orizon Real Estate in Whitley County. Kathy and husband Jim share 7 children and 9 grandchildren.

Previously, Kathy was a Columbia City Common Council member for 8 years, on the Columbia City Housing Authority for 4 years, Columbia City Board of Works for 4 years, Columbia City Plan Commission for 6 years, former President of the Whitley County United Way Board of Directors and was Co-Chairman of the United Way Campaign in Whitley County for 2 years. Also, she was Vice Chairman of the Whitley County Republican Party for 4 years and then served as Chairman for the following 4 years.

Currently, Kathy is the Chairman of the Whitley County Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors (2010), President of the Blue River Senior Housing Corp. (a non-profit organization that builds low income housing for senior citizens in Whitley County) and she sits on the Government Affairs Committee for the Fort Wayne Association of Realtors.

“My goals as a State Representative are to embrace the values and beliefs of my district and to work toward better economic development strategies in order to bring jobs to Northeast Indiana; to protect Hoosier taxpayers by balancing the state budget with no new tax increases, and to fight for focusing education dollars in the classroom while rewarding quality teachers.”