About Don Adams

I am a retired Mooresville High School teacher. I taught Indiana Studies, U.S. History, Civics and Government. My tenure of teaching was 40 years as a teacher (38 years @ MHS). I retired in 2004 to be "Papaw's Day Care" for my grandson Keegan...in the picture on the home page.

My wife Lynn and I have been married 46 years. She is also a retired teacher. We have two children; Jed married to Terah (Dillon) and Meghan, a libraian in the Mooresville Public Library. Jed is a deputy sherrif in the warrents division of Marion County. He and Terah are parents to our two grandchildren, Keegan, 8 and Jolie, 1.

I was a Scoutmaster for 25 years and still keep my finger in the pot by serving as a merit badge councilor for the three citizenship merit badges and am always on call for a canoe trip to one of my favorite place in the world, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, of upper Minnesota.

In 1989 I was selected as the Mooresvillian of the Year. That was a particularly rewarding honor as my mother Marian (Davee) Adams had received it six years previous.

In February, 2007, I was elected as County Councilman by the Republican caucus to replace Sam Carlisle who moved to New York. Sam is a good friend and one of my "boys" in good ole "Dirty Thirty" (Troop 30, BSA).

I enjoyed my two years on the council grappling with the many finanacial challenges that face local government. I have enjoyed these past four years as commissioner perhaps even more. State Treasure Richard Mourdock told me once of his '"sentence" of 8 years of H*** serving as County Commissioner. It may have been like that in Vandenburg county but here in Morgan I have enjoyed a wonderful group of citizens and elected officials... people to work with who afford a great opportunity for me to serve, innovate and economize... the three legs of the my 2012 campaign "stool."

My chief reason for seeking the second term office of Commissioner is the lad on the front page and his one year old sister. . I love the people of this county, but my real constiuents...and judges... are those of the future generations. It is like planting a tree...we don't do it for ourselves.

Memberships:

Boy Scouts of America
ABATE of Indiana, Morgan County Chapter
Mooresville Chamber of Commerce
Martinsville Chamber of Commerce
Mooresville-Decatur Rotary (currently the president)
Indiana Farm Bureau
Morgan County Beef Cattle Association
Central Indiana Racing Pigeon Club
Past member and president of the Morgan County Extension Board
Indiana Association of County Commissioners
Association of Indiana Counties
Attend the Fairfield Friends Church

I have voted in every Republican Primary and every General Election since I was 21 (that was in 1964 when I proudly voted for Barry Goldwater!)

Positions and boards;

Precinct Chairperson, Brown 7
Morgan County Community Corrections
Morgan County Solid Waste
Morgan County Drainage Board
Aging Services of Morgan County
Legislative Committee of the Indiana Associaition of County Commissioners
Central Indiana Regional Transit Authority
Metropolitan Planning Organization (Central Indiana)

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