Bloomington's City Council District Candidates

The race for city council has begun. The primary will be May 3, and the final election of board members will be in November. Below is a list of candidates running in specific districts.

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1

Chris Sturbaum, Democrat
Current city council member and owner of Golden Hands Construction

Greg Alexander, Democrat
Member of Bloomington Transportation Options for People

KC Baker, Republican
Graduate student at School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the School of Library and Information Science and systems manager for Lawyer Metrics

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 2

Dorothy Granger, Democrat
Member of Bloomington Human Rights Commission and Bloomington Commission on the Status of Women

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 3

Martin Spechler, Democrat
Professor of economics at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis

Gary Charbonneau, Democrat
Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force and IU Systems librarian
Ronald Smith, Democrat
Research associate at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community’s Center on Community Living and Careers

Brett Rorem, Democrat
Officer at Bloomington Police Department

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 4

David Rollo, Democrat
Current city council member and research associate at the IU Department of Biology

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 5

Darryl Neher, Democrat
Senior lecturer at the Kelley School of Business

Megan Hutchison, Democrat
Assistant director of IU Intensive Freshman Seminars program

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 6

Stephen Volan, Democrat
Current city council member and faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences dean’s office

Sandi Cole, Democrat
Director of the Center on Education and Lifelong Learning at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community

— Michael Auslen