JENNIFER BRUNNER

JENNIFER BRUNNER

Age: 53

Home: Columbus

Education: A law degree from Capital University Law School; a master’s degree in public administration from The Ohio State University; a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and gerontology from Miami University.

Employment: Secretary of state

Family: Husband, Rick; two daughters and a son.

Priority: Aiming stimulus funding toward jobs such as infrastructure rebuilding, providing health-insurance credit for small businesses, creating task forces in communities to bring together business and skilled labor to apply for grants and worker-retraining funds, and allow those on unemployment to work part time to help speed up re-employment.

LEE FISHER

Age: 57

Home: Shaker Heights

Education: A law degree from Case Western School of Law; a master’s degree from Case Western University; a bachelor’s of arts degree from Oberlin College.

Employment: Lieutenant governor

Family: Wife, Peggy; one son and one daughter.

Priority: The No. 1 focus is helping to create, save and attract good-paying jobs to Ohio and strengthen our families’ economic security. Eliminating incentives for companies that ship jobs overseas and to tear down unfair trade barriers to American exports by enforcing trade issues.