Profiles in Service - October 5, 2015

Larry Waters has served 12 terms as mayor of Sevier County, Tenn., starting when he was a 25-year-old school principal. 

Mary Ann Borgeson has spent nearly 32 years as a member of the Douglas County, Neb. Board of Commissioners and will leave office at the end of the year. 

NACo CEO Matt Chase writes: "County leaders face a new governing challenge: Reaching residents in a world where human attention has become the scarcest resource of all."