Endorsements

Elected Leaders

David Anderson, Mayor, City of Kalamazoo

Glenn S. Anderson, Commissioner, Wayne County

Joey Andrews, State Representative, District 38 (St. Joseph)

Annie Brown, Mayor, City of South Haven

Jerry Clayton, Washtenaw County Sheriff (Ret.)

John Dewane, Prosecutor, Ingham County

Richard Fuller, Kalamazoo County Sheriff

George Heartwell, Former Mayor, City of Grand Rapids

Michelle LaJoye Young, Kent County Sheriff

Austin Lowes, Chairman, Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians

Marcus Muhammad, Mayor, City of Benton Harbor

Sheldon Neeley, Mayor, City of Flint

Cynthia Neeley, State Representative, District 70 (Flint)

Jenna Nelson, Prosecutor, Marquette County

Lupe Ramos-Montigny, Former Member, Michigan State Board of Education

Tom Reich, Eaton County Sheriff

Mark Schauer, Former U.S. Member of Congress (south-central Michigan) and candidate for Governor

Andy Schor, Mayor of Lansing

Rob Steinhoff, Prosecutor, Alger County

Joe Tate, State Representative, District 9 (Detroit); Former Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives

Casandra Ulbrich, Ph.D., Former President, Michigan State Board of Education; Former Chair, MDP Women’s Caucus

Scott Wriggelsworth, Ingham County Sheriff

Milinda Ysasi, Commissioner, City of Grand Rapids

Greg Zyburt, Marquette County Sheriff

Doug Zylstra, Commissioner, Ottawa County

Community Advocates

Emily Busch, Gun Violence Prevention Advocate, Mother of Teenage Son Who Survived the 2021 Oxford High School Mass Shooting

Liesl Clark, Former Director, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy

Anna Dituri, Former President, UP North Pride

Saul Green, former Deputy Mayor, City of Detroit; former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan

Cle Jackson, President, Grand Rapids NAACP (endorsement in personal capacity)

Patrick Miles, Former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan

Bryan Newland, Former Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior; Former President, Bay Mills Indian Community

Jeremy Orr, Environmental & Civil Rights Leader

Angela Povilaitis, Former Assistant Attorney General, Michigan Department of Attorney General, and lead prosecutor on the Doctor Larry Nasser case

Wesley Watson, Environmental & Civil Rights Leader

* Institutional affiliations of individuals are for identification purposes only.