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    (Mayor / City Adminstrator / City Clerk / Treasurer / Alderman Ward 1 / Alderman Ward 2 / Alderman Ward 3 / Alderman Ward 4)
Mayor / Steve Dean
 


Steve was elected to serve as Mayor in April, 2009.  He was appointed to fill a vacancy on the council in May, 2008.  This appointment is the third time for Steve to serve as alderman on the city council.  Steve is the Music Director at the First United Methodist Church, a former president of the    Le Roy Chamber of Commerce and the first Executive Director of the      Le Roy BDG.  He has organized celebrations and parades in Le Roy for the past 20 years.  Steve volunteers as Parks and Playgrounds Director for the city.  He planned and developed the How Park and organizes Park Fest and other park related activities for the municipal parks and playgrounds in the City of Le Roy.
 
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City Clerk / Sue Marcum
 
  Sue is a life long resident of the City of Le Roy.  She was hired by the City of Le Roy as Assistant City Clerk in 1983 and was appointed City Clerk in 1996 to fill a vacancy.  She is currently serving her fourth consecutive full term as City Clerk.  Sue and husband, Tommy, have three children Jason, Justin and Julee.  They enjoy spending time with their four granddaughters Jadyn, Jillian, Joelle, and Makana, and their four grandsons, Sam, Maddux, Cylas and Payton.   
 
Treasurer / Teresa Miller
 
  Teresa is the wife of G.J. Miller and mother of Miranda Walker (Bruce), Katie Taylor (Kenneth) and Joseph Miller.  Teresa has three granddaughters, Ashleigh, Brooke and Mara.  Teresa is a member of the First United Presbyterian Church of Le Roy.  She has been employed since 1994 at Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. in Le Roy.  She enjoys spending time with her family and loves to travel.  She is now serving her fourth term as City Treasurer.
 
Aldermen Ward 1 / John Haney
 
  John Haney is alderman of Ward 1. He and his wife Sandra have three children, Anna, Clark and Katie Beth. John has lived in this local area all his life, except while earning his pre-law degree in 1992 from Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida. He moved to Le Roy in 1998 and found Le Roy to be the perfect place to rear and home school their children.  John believes in cultivating progressive growth in the community while preserving a “home town” atmosphere.
 
Aldermen Ward 1 / Dawn Thompson
 
  Dawn represents Ward 1 serving her fourth consecutive term on the City Council. She has lived in Le Roy since childhood and graduated from Le Roy High School. Having graduated from Illinois State University in Normal, she taught at Le Roy Elementary School for 24 years, retiring in 1994. Dawn has also been an EMT with the Le Roy Emergency Ambulance Service for 21 years, worked with the Explorer Scouts, and was in charge of Le Roy's community sale for 20 plus years. She has 3 sons and 7 grandchildren.
 
Aldermen Ward 2 / Julie F. Duncan
 
    Julie is an alderman from Ward 2.  She was a graduate of Le Roy High School in 1968.  After college at Illinois State and Mennonite Hospital School of Nursing, she moved west to get married and continue her work/study.  Much of Julie’s life was in the San Francisco Bay area where she lived with her family of 3 children.  Her early career was in clinical nursing, and later in administration and management. She is currently a Nurse Auditor at a local hospital and working toward her certification as a healthcare compliance auditor.  Julie feels she can make a positive influence in her position on City Council and looks forward to better knowing the people in her constituency.
 
Aldermen Ward 2 / Shirley Chancellor
 
  Shirley has lived in Le Roy her whole life with the exception of her college years at ISU.  She has lived at her family home off and on since 1957.  Having lived in this community here whole life, Shirley brings a background of experiences and knowledge about past and current issues facing the City of Le Roy.  She is now retired, but spent thirty-six years teaching at Le Roy Elementary.  The majority of her teaching experience was in the upper elementary grades of 4, 5 and 6, but has also taught first and second grades.  Plus, Shirley also taught and administered the Title I program.  Her teaching years have provided a range of experiences with different types of committees and working with the public on a daily basis.  During the last six years, she volunteered her time at her church, at the Rike House Museum, as a member of L.E.A.F. Board of Directors, as a board member of the Replex, and has substituted at Le Roy Elementary. In 2005, she was appointed to the council to fill a vacancy and in 2007, she was elected to a four year full term.
 
Aldermen Ward 3 / Nancy Bentley
 
  Nancy was elected to serve her first four year term as Ward 3 Aldermen in April, 2007.
     
Aldermen Ward 3 / Boyd Denner
     
  Boyd Denner is in his first term as alderman representing Ward 3.  He is a Business Analyst at State Farm and has been employed with State Farm for over 12 years.  Boyd has a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science from the University of Alabama and completed two years of graduate studies at Middle Tennessee State University.  He is married to Lisa and they have found Le Roy to be the perfect place to live and raise a family.
 
 
Aldermen Ward 4 / T. A. Whitsitt
 
  T. A. graduated from Western Illinois University in 1979 and has lived in  Le Roy since 2000. He and his wife Karen have one son and one daughter. T. A. is the Senior Agronomist for Pioneer HI-Bred International Inc. and has been employed by Pioneer for the past 27 years. T. A. also serves on the RCA Board for Replex and the Le Roy Summer League Board as the Fund Raising Chairman along with other duties. He was appointed to the council in April, 2004 as an Alderman for Ward 4. He was elected in April 2009 to serve his second full term on the city council.
 
Aldermen Ward 4 / Dawn Hanafin
 
  I lived in LeRoy from the time I was born until my father’s job transferred my family to Houston, Texas when I was nine.  I spent the rest of my youth in Spring, Texas where I graduated from Klein High School in 1994.  Working in different jobs throughout high school and college gave me the opportunity to experience many different positions, learn a multitude of skills and helped me to realize how vast of a workforce there is in life.  Attending both University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX, I graduated in May of 2001 on the Dean’s List with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration.  Immediately upon graduation, I returned to LeRoy to run our new family business known as LeRoy True Value, Just Ask Rental, NAPA Auto Parts, and U-Haul.  We opened the doors in August of 2001 and haven’t stopped growing since.  Due to the experience of running a business and interacting with customers, I feel like I have what it takes to help the city council do what is right for the city, its citizens and its business owners.  I feel that I am a great asset to this community.