Class of 2009

Terri Bryant

Terri is the Secretary of the Jackson County Republican Central Committee and Chaplain of the Jackson County Republican Women’s Club as well as a member of the National Federation of Republican Women and the Illinois Federation of Republican Women.  She has been a Precinct Committee person for the past five years.   Terri was a delegate to the Illinois Republican convention in 2008 where she served on the committee to appoint Presidential Electors.  At the convention, she was appointed as a John McCain Presidential Elector.   In 2008, Bryant had an unsuccessful run for a seat on the Jackson County Board but undeterred by the defeat, has already begun to look towards the 2010 campaign for the other seat in the district.

 Bryant attended John A. Logan College where she studied Psychology with the hope to someday do family and marriage counseling.  Terri is employed by the Illinois Department of Corrections where she is the Dietary Manager at both the Pinckneyville Correctional Center and the Duquoin Impact Incarceration Facility.  She also serves as a member of the statewide Religious Practices Advisory Board and as an Internal as well as an External auditor for IDOC.  Recently, Terri became a Union Steward for the Illinois Employee Association and Laborers Local 2002.

 Ms. Bryant is very active in her church.  She has served as President of the Christian Women’s Fellowship and has been a Sunday school teacher for twenty years.  She has been a youth group sponsor and has been a participant in several short-term mission trips to Ensenada, Mexico and once to Chiang Mai, Thailand.

 Terri resides in Murphysboro with her husband Rick.  She has one son Tyler, and one daughter Tara (Clint) Chamness and one granddaughter.