Dana Camphous-Peterson (D) District 18

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Dana Camphous-Peterson was elected in January 2007 by fellow members of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners to serve a one-year term as vice chair. She joined the County Board as an appointee in June 2006 and then was elected in November 2006 to represent the residents of District 18 in Harrison Township and southeast Clinton Township.

Her appointment was to fill the remaining term of former Commissioner Bob Gibson, who resigned in May 2006. The 2007-08 term is her first as an elected official.

The District 18 native is a champion for abused children, and a leader in providing treatment and supervision for drug-addicted juveniles and criminal defendants.

In 1996, she co-founded Care House of Macomb County, an agency that provides free services to children who are victims of sexual or physical abuse, and their families. She also is a founding board member of the Macomb County Drug Court, which uses an organized system of intensive treatment and management to help criminal defendants and youth beat drug and alcohol dependency and become productive citizens.

In 2005, Camphous-Peterson worked with community groups, governmental organizations, charities and businesses to help provide food, clothing and housing for more than 400 Hurricane Katrina victims who came to Macomb County.

Camphous-Peterson, 43, received Women of Distinction awards from Soroptimist International of Greater Macomb and the Girl Scouts of Macomb County/Otsikita Council, and the Alexander Macomb Citizen of the Year award from the March of Dimes.

She is a board member of the March of Dimes and is a member of the Zonta Club and the Downtown Mount Clemens Planning Breakfast Club.

A graduate of L’Anse Creuse North High School, Camphous-Peterson attended Cottey College in Nevada, Mo., Northwood University, King’s College in London and Southeast Missouri State University.

She and her husband Bill Peterson have four children and one granddaughter.