Profiles in Service - October 5, 2015

Beaver County, Utah Commissioner Tammy Pearson wanted to show congressional staffers the scope of the interaction between federal and county governments and see up-close what life is like in a public lands county. 

Elected county officials nearly the end of their terms can help their successors start off strong and avoid the loss of institutional knowledge.

At home in Sonoma County, Calif. and as NACo president, James Gore pushed for modernized local and federal responses to natural disasters.