COMPILED BY THE DANE COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE SCOTT MCDONELL, COUNTY CLERK ROOM 106A, CITY-COUNTY BUILDING 210 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BLVD. MADISON, WISCONSIN 53703-3342 (608) 266-4121 FAX (608) 266-4361 OFFICE HOURS: 7:45 A.M. – 4:30 P.M., MONDAY – FRIDAY 1 OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 2021 - 2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS ELECTION INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------- 3 ORGANIZATION OF DANE COUNTY GOVERNMENT ---------------------- 4 POPULATION TOTAL ---------------------------------------------------------------- 5 HISTORY OF DANE COUNTY ----------------------------------------------------- 6 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS & COURTS ----------------------- 7-8 STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS & COURTS ------------------------- 9-13 CIRCUIT COURTS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 11-13 ELECTED COUNTY OFFICIALS -------------------------------------------------- 14 COUNTY DEPARTMENTS ------------------------------------------------------ 15-18 COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS -------------------------------------- 19-22 COUNTY BOARD COMMITTEES --------------------------------------------- 23-24 COUNTY BOARDS, COMMISSIONS & COMMITTEES ---------------- 25-27 SCHOOL DISTRICTS ------------------------------------------------------------- 28-29 TOWN OFFICERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 30-62 COUNTY MAP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Center VILLAGE OFFICERS ------------------------------------------------------------- 63-82 CITY OFFICERS -------------------------------------------------------------------- 83-90 Visit the Dane County Home Page at www.countyofdane.com for more information, including e-mail addresses. 2 *****VOTING INFORMATION***** How do I register to vote (including registering online)? How do I apply for an absentee ballot? Where is my polling place? Who are my elected officials? What is on my ballot? These questions and more can be answered at MY VOTE WISCONSIN https://myvote.wi.gov/ 2021 ELECTION DATES February 16 April 6 (Spring Primary) (Spring Election) 2022 ELECTION DATES February 15 April 5 (Spring Primary) (Spring Election) August 9 November 8 (Partisan Primary) (General Election) 3 ORGANIZATION OF DANE COUNTY GOVERNMENT ELECTORATE BOARD OF COUNTY ELECTED SUPERVISORS EXECUTIVE OFFICES (pages 19 – 22) (page 14) STANDING COMMITTEES (pages 23 – 24) COMMITTEES OF THE COUNTY BOARD (page 24) BOARDS & COUNTY COMMISSIONS DEPARTMENTS (pages 25 – 27) (pages 15 – 18) 4 DANE COUNTY Total Population Estimate: 546,004 Joe Parisi County Executive Analiese Eicher Chair of County Board Chuck Erickson 1st Vice Chair Kristen Audet 2nd Vice Chair Maureen McCarville Anthony Gray Sergeants at Arms Scott McDonell County Clerk 5 HISTORY OF DANE COUNTY Meeting in 1836, members of the first Wisconsin territorial legislature selected Madison as the capital. The city was named for the recently deceased fourth U. S. President, James Madison. A large county for which Madison served as the county seat was established on paper and named for Congressman Nathan Dane of Massachusetts of the old Continental Congress under the Confederation. Dane was responsible for the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 establishing governmental institutions and forever forbidding slavery to exist in the territory. County government was established in 1839 with the election of a three-member board of commissioners. Wisconsin settlers brought two forms of local government with them. Those who settled the lead mining region were southerners and brought the tradition of strong counties going back to the Virginia roots of this form, usually with small governing bodies. Yankees who came from New England and upstate New York brought strong town governments. For a while Wisconsin struggled with how to blend these two traditions. In 1857 a larger Board of Supervisors was established for counties. After a brief relapse during the Civil War to a small body, in 1870 the final version was for a large board of Supervisors with each town and other incorporated municipalities represented. With a large geographical area Dane had many townships to include and thus became and has remained one of the largest member county boards in the state. Population growth was important for the new county since the census of 1840 showed only 314 settlers though that increased in one decade to 16,639. By 1900 there were 70,000 persons and the 2010 census showed nearly half a million residents. Many streams of immigration, particularly German and Norwegian farmers, contributed to this growth. The township of Mazomanie was settled by a temperance society from England. Agricultural production was and still is an important part of the county’s economy. Many farmers came to Madison to attend short courses in scientific agriculture, as the University of Wisconsin was the state’s land grant college. The World Dairy Expo today remains a testimony to this knowledge-based agriculture economy. Many places in the county became part of the industrial growth of the 19th Century through the manufacturing and distribution of agricultural implements with firms like Fuller and Johnson in Madison and the Mandt works in Stoughton. Of course even though part of the county was founded by a temperance society, local breweries were important prior to prohibition. Dane County’s real growth occurs after World War II as state government institutions expand to provide services to returning veterans and to a growing manufacturing state which shared in the automobile boom. The veterans also went to college sparking growth at the University of Wisconsin. Today the University of Wisconsin Madison is one of the nation’s top research campuses, annually bringing in over $1 billion in research dollars. County government in Wisconsin is delegated by the state to provide many services for citizens. Rapid growth and development in later part of the 20th Century caused a concomitant growing concern for the environment of the region. While Dane County government faces new challenges in the 21st Century, its thirty-seven member Board of Supervisors, as well as the Constitutional officers, continue the strong representative governing heritage of Dane County. 6 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT www.whitehouse.gov EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT Joe Biden Kamala Harris CABINET Secretary of State ----------------------------------------------------- Anthony Blinken Secretary of the Treasury ------------------------------------------- Dr. Janet Yellen Secretary of Defense ----------------------------------------------------- Lloyd Austin Attorney General ------------------------------------------------------- Merrick Garland Secretary of the Interior ------------------------------------------------- Deb Haaland Secretary of Agriculture -------------------------------------------------- Tom Vilsack Secretary of Commerce --------------------------------------------- Gina Raimondo Secretary of Labor --------------------------------------------------------- Marty Walsh Secretary of Health & Human Services ------------------------- Xavier Becerra Secretary of Housing & Urban Development ------------------- Marcia Fudge Secretary of Transportation ----------------------------------------- Pete Buttigieg Secretary of Energy ----------------------------------------------- Jennifer Granholm Secretary of Education ----------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel Cardona Secretary of Veterans Affairs ----------------------------------Denis McDonough Secretary of Homeland Security --------------------------- Alejandro Mayorkas LEGISLATIVE U.S. SENATORS Ronald H. Johnson ------------------------------------------------------ (202-224-5323) 328 Hart Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20510 Madison Office ----------------------------------------------------------------- (240-9629) 5315 Wall St., Suite 110, Madison 53718 www.ronjohnson.senate.gov Term Expires--January 2023 Tammy Baldwin ---------------------------------------------------------- (202-224-5653) 709 Hart Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20510 Madison Office ----------------------------------------------------------------- (264-5338) 30 W. Mifflin St., Suite 700, Madison 53703 www.baldwin.senate.gov Term Expires--January 2025 7 U.S. REPRESENTATIVES All Terms Expire---January 2021 District 1 Bryan Steil ------------------------------------------------------------ (202-225-3031) 1526 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515 *2 Mark Pocan ----------------------------------------------------------- (202-225-2906) 1727 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515 Madison Office -------------------------------------------------------------- (258-9800) 10 E. Doty St, Suite 405, Madison 53703 www.pocan.house.gov 3 Ron Kind --------------------------------------------------------------- (202-225-5506) 1502 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515 4 Gwen Moore ---------------------------------------------------------- (202-225-4572) 2252 Rayburn House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515 5 Scott Fitzgerald ------------------------------------------------------ (202-225-5101) 1507 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515 6 Glenn Grothman ---------------------------------------------------- (202-225-2476) 1427 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515 7 Tom Tiffany ----------------------------------------------------------- (202-225-3365) 1719 Longworth House Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20515 8 Mike Gallagher -------------------------------------------------------