In the upcoming November general election, there will be a contested race for the Greene County Supervisor District 2 seat.

Democrat nominee Patti Naylor is a 1974 Bayard High School graduate. She has a bachelor’s degree in Home Economics Education from Iowa State University. She worked as a substitute teacher and nutrition educator, while traveling and volunteering from 1980 through 2010. Then from 2011 to 2014, she taught at Greene County Middle School. Since 2014, she’s been farming and serving as a substitute teacher in the Greene County and Paton-Churdan School Districts. Naylor serves on the board of the Family Farm Defenders, is an Executive Committee member of the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter, and previously served on the Women, Food, and Agriculture Network, as well as the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Task Force.

Naylor wants to be a County Supervisor because she has concerns about the decreasing number of family farms and wants to promote fairness in the county.

“I think a lot of people in our rural areas are reluctant to speak on some issues. I’ve heard that from some individuals and I’ve seen that at public hearings. Sometimes people have a difficult time speaking on issues that are very close to their heart, that are sometimes controversial. So I think it is important to listen to people and to be a voice who may not have the courage or the ability to actually speak up for themselves.”

Naylor was nominated by the Greene County Democratic Party at a special convention last month to run against Republican incumbent Dawn Rudolph in the November election.