Juan has twenty-five years of experience in local government. He served as the Community Development Director for the City of Niles from 1998 to 2015 and has since served as City Manager for the City of Bridgman. Juan graduated from Michigan State University in 1995 with a BS in Urban and Regional Planning and earned his Masters in Public Administration from Western Michigan University in 2007. He currently serves as the chair of the Michigan Municipal Executives’ Ethics Committee, is on the board of MML’s Workers’ Compensation Fund and a member of a variety of committees and boards in Berrien County. Juan believes that engaged residents hold the keys to meaningful and lasting change in Michigan’s cities, townships and villages.