There are five members of the Lawrence City Commission. None of the seats are up for election until 2005. A look at each.

Mayor David Dunfield

Dunfield is in the third year of a four-year term, his second after serving an earlier two-year term before election.

Dunfield came to Kansas University as a freshman in 1970 and — except for a decade-long 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 reached at 841-1477 or ddunfield@glpma.com.

Vice Mayor Mike Rundle

Rundle is in the first year of a four-year term, his third term on the commission since the late 1980s. As the leading vote-getter in the 2003 campaign, Rundle would traditionally become the city’s mayor next April.

He works at the Community Mercantile Co-op. His community involvement has included service with the Bert Nash Community Mental Health 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.

Commissioner Boog Highberger

Highberger is in the first year of a four-year term. As the second-leading vote-getter in the 2003 election, he is in line, traditionally, to become the city’s vice mayor in April 2004, and mayor the following year.

He works part time as a staff attorney for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka.

Highberger came to Lawrence in 1977 as a Kansas University student. He continued his education at the university, off and on, through most of the next decade. He was student body vice president in 1984.

His family owns a farm implement dealership in Garnett. He sits on the board of the Community Mercantile grocery store.

Contact him at 843-0995 or boog59@juno.com.

Commissioner David Schauner

Schauner is in the first year of a two-year term.

Schauner is an attorney for the Kansas-National Education Assn. in Topeka. He represents teachers and teachers’ associations in dismissals, collective bargaining and other matters.

The association is based in Topeka, and Schauner lived there from 1973 to 2000 before deciding to move to Lawrence. He became involved in city politics when developers proposed a “big box” store for Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive, near his neighborhood. That proposal eventually became the Wal-Mart proposal the city continues to battle.

Reach Schauner at 842-7459 or davidschauner2003@hotmail.com.

Commissioner 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, Hack spent 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 the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.

Hack can be reached at 842-6608. Her e-mail is suehack@sunflower.com.