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Meet Jerry

Jerry was elected as the Assembly's 52nd District in November of 2022 and was sworn into office on January 3rd, 2023.  Following the drawing for new District maps Jerry, if re-elected, will be representing the new 60th District beginning in January of 2025.

Representative Jerry O'Connor was born into a family of seven brothers in Southwest Wisconsin.  His family moved to Lomira during his high school years.  He has since had a long history as a resident in Fond du Lac County.  

Jerry has two daughters and two grandkids from his first marriage to Amy, who passed away in 2015 after a short battle with cancer.  He has since been re-married to Luanne (Bohlman-Romuald) who had also suffered the loss of a spouse in late 2014.  Luanne is a Fond du Lac native and has been active in many ways throughout the community.  Luanne brings her three children and four grandkids to blessed blended family. 

After graduation from High School, Jerry attended Minnesota Bible College and later graduated from the University of Wisconsin Graduate School of Banking.  Jerry spent his career working in the financial and business sectors.  The past 22 years at a community bank in Waupun.  In his various capacities, he worked with families to save and build for their futures; finance cars, boats and campers; homes and education; businesses and farming. 

Following his retirement, Jerry was elected to represent the 52nd Assembly District in 2022. O’Connor noted, “I signed up for this job because I sincerely care about the people in my communities, together with the broader concerns we see nationally and the challenges that are tearing at the social fabric of our nation.  I will continue to approach these issues with the common-sense conservative, time tested principles that built this great nation.”

In the 2023-2024 session I was honored to serve as the Chair of the Speaker’s Task Force on Human Trafficking, Vice Chair of the Financial Institutions Committee and a member of these committees:  Colleges & Universities; Corrections; Family Law; Jobs, Economy & Small Business Development; and Workforce Development & Economic Opportunities

Jerry authored 31 bills with the potential that half of those could be signed into law before this session ends.  Additionally, he co-sponsored more than 300 bills where the focus of these bills has been on tax cuts; election integrity; updating laws and regulations; introducing bills to reduce sex trafficking in Wisconsin; addressing free speech concerns on college campuses; promoting improved education outcomes; returning shared revenue back to our local jurisdictions; and holding government accountable to the people.

Jerry challenges to keep the long game in sight with the upcoming election cycles that will be crucial for our country and state. We need to come together and work towards the collective goal of electing Republicans up and down the ballot – in 2024 this includes the President, US Senator, the State Senators and Assembly Reps races. In 2025 elect a constitutionalist judge for the State Supreme Court, and then in 2026, we need to retire Governor Evers.”

Your vote matters because today you are electing belief systems possibly more than the individual.  Based on the last election results, Jerry represents an overwhelming majority of Fond du Lac resident's core values by a margin of nearly two-to-one.  I humbly ask you to help return me to the Assembly in 2025-2026 as your representative for the new 60th District.

Jerry has led a number of organizations and has been active within the community in many ways to include:

  • Past Board Chair of the Charis Pregnancy Help Center;
  • Board Treasurer of eCenter For Hope and Vision; 
  • Past Board Chair positions: Rotary Club, Wisconsin Bankers Assn and Community Bankers of Wisconsin plus several banking and Financial Industry boards;  
  • Past Board Member of: the FDL County Capital Resources Board, The FDL County Economic Development Corp,
  • the Board Treasurer for the Waupun Industrial Development Corp;
  • Past Member ofFDL Area Agri-Business Council, FDL County 4-H Horse Project;
  • Leaderships Roles in church and prison ministry where he has positively impacted thousands of lives

Committee to Elect Jerry O'Connor

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