There are five members of the Lawrence City Commission, three of whose seats are up for election on April 1. A look at each:

Mayor Sue Hack

Hack was the leading vote-getter in the 2001 city commission election and is serving the second year of her first term.

Before her retirement from teaching last spring, Hack taught 30 years at Lawrence’s South, Central and West junior high schools before her final job as a civics teacher at Southwest Junior High School. Her civic involvement extended to work for United Way, Lawrence’s Sister City program, a class member and board member of Leadership Lawrence and membership in the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.

She can be reached at 842-6608.

Vice Mayor David Dunfield

Dunfield is in the second year of a four-year term, his second after serving an earlier two-year term before re-election. As the second-leading vote-getter in the 2001 campaign, Dunfield would traditionally become the city’s mayor next April.

Dunfield came to Kansas University as a freshman in 1970 and except for a decadelong migration to New York, St. Louis, Kansas City and Japan has been here since. He works for GLPM Architects and has been involved with the Barker Neighborhood Assn. and the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods.

He can be reached at 841-1477 or ddunfield@glpma.com.

Jim Henry

Henry is in the fourth year of his first term. He has not said if he will run for re-election in April.

He retired in 1997 as associate director of the University Placement Center at Kansas University. Henry also has served with Warm Hearts of Douglas County, which collects money to defray winter heating bills for residents needing help, as well as the Lawrence Rotary Club and First United Methodist Church. He retired from the Naval Reserves in 1985 as a captain, having served as a pilot and intelligence officer.

He can be reached at 842-6879 or jhenry@ku.edu.

Marty Kennedy

Kennedy is in the final year of a two-year term, after serving an earlier four-year term. He has said he will not run for re-election in April.

After a stint with the Marines in Vietnam during the late 1960s, he returned to work for and eventually manage the family’s business, Kennedy Glass.

He also served previously on the board of directors of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, and was appointed by then-Mayor Bob Moody to serve on the city’s Community Development Block Grant Allocation Committee.

He can be contacted at 841-9541 or mkennedy@sunflower.com.

Mike Rundle

Rundle served a term on the commission in the late 1980s, then took most of the 1990s off from city politics, making a failed run for the Kansas Legislature in 1998. He is now serving the final year of a four-year term and has said he will run for re-election in April.

He works at the Community Mercantile Co-op. His community involvement has included service with the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center board of directors, the Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships and the Old West Lawrence Assn.

He can be reached at 841-7817 or at mike@mikerundle.org.