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210 6th Ave SE
Roseau, MN 56751

Email: nswanson@wiktel.com
Home Phone: 218-463-2691

Jack Swanson is the current Chair of the Roseau County Board and has served Roseau County as Commissioner of District 2 since 2006. Commissioner Swanson is originally from the area, and has spent all but ten years of his adult life residing in the county. His father Ole Swanson was born and raised in Warroad and his mother Connie (Sonsteng) was born and raised in Roseau. Jack Swanson and his wife Nancy lived in Madison, Wisconsin from 1986-1996 where Jack was the play-by-play voice of the Wisconsin Hockey Badgers and the sports director for the Wisconsin Radio Network. The Swanson's returned to Roseau in 1996 to raise their two sons Jeff and Willie and to start KCAJ-FM radio (KJ-102). Their oldest son Jeff lives in Delano, MN where he is a science teacher and their son Willie is a Criminal Justice major at St. Cloud State University. Commissioner Swanson's broadcast career continues and he can be heard weekdays on the KJ-102 morning show.

CURRENT COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Delegate: Committee of the Whole; Association of Minnesota Counties; Budget Committee; Judicial Ditch No. 33; JD No. 63; State Ditch No. 95; KaMar Board; Joint Committee for Funding of Roseau County Library; Northwestern Minnesota Household Hazardous Waste Joint Powers Board; Quin County Community Health Services; Roseau Community Development Committee; Roseau County Affordable Housing Fund Advisory Committee; Roseau County Building Committee; Roseau County Committee on Aging; Roseau County Extension Committee; Roseau County Insurance Committee; Roseau County Jail Finance Committee, Roseau County Law Library Board; Roseau County Safety Committee; Solid Waste Planning Committee.

Alternate: Bovine TB Committee, Beltrami Island State Forest OHV Trail Planning Committee, BIST Trail Planning; Roseau County WMA Committee; Emergency Management; Delinquent Ditch Tax Committee; Emergency Management Committee; Joint Powers for the Administration of the Wetland Conservation Act; Minnesota Rural Counties Caucus; Northern Border Counties Coalition; Northern Counties Land Use Coordinating Board; Roseau County Highway and Ditch Committee; Roseau County Sheriff's Commission; Roseau County Human Resource Committee; Roseau County Wage Negotiation Committee.