Greene County Presiding Commissioner Bob Dixon was first elected in 2018 and again in 2022. He entered public service in 2002 upon being elected to the State House of Representatives where he was also elected or appointed to various leadership roles. He served until 2010, when he was elected to the Missouri Senate where he was appointed Chair of the Judiciary Committee, serving as the first non-attorney in that post since the 1830s and only the third in state history.

Under his leadership, Missouri’s Criminal Code was fully revised for the first time in 35 years. He re-circuited the State’s Court System for the first time since the 1950s and led the modernization of laws governing the State Auditor for the first time since 1929.

He’s a board member of the County Commissioners Association of Missouri and is the Legislative Liaison for the Southwest District. He’s a board member of the Missouri Association of Counties and represents Missouri as a board member of the National Association of Counties.

He’s also been active on local boards and non-profit steering committees like the Salvation Army Advisory Board, the Ozarks Transportation Organization as past Chair, and the Ozark Headwaters Recycling & Materials Management District, a partnership with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. He serves as permanent chair of the seven-county Council of Local Elected Officials which oversees the contracting, operations and compliance of the Ozark Region Workforce Development Board and the Missouri Job Center.

His Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Drury University was earned in 1997, and he returned in 2009, earning a Master of Education, Human Services.

He has periodically served as an adjunct instructor in Drury University’s Leadership Studies Program, and his private sector career includes more than 20 years in banking and financial services.

Bob and his wife Amanda are licensed Realtors with 417RealEstate.com. They are active in a local church and have three daughters and two granddaughters. Their interests include new explorations via travel and continuous learning about our shared heritage in the Ozarks, Missouri and our relatively young nation

Elected to office in 2020 Rusty MacLachlan serves as Greene County Commissioner District 1. He retired from a 38 year Custom Home Design and Build career. As a 7th generation home builder he has served two terms as the President of the Greater Springfield Home Builder’s Association, and twice served as President of the Missouri Home Builder’s Association.

Rusty has served on the board of directors for the National Association of Home Builders, the Springfield Traffic Advisory Board, Habitat for Humanity, Community Partnership of the Ozarks, Ozarks Transportation Organization, The Healthy Living Alliance Advisory Board, The National Association of Counties Transportation Board, and previously the Housing and Interior Design Council at Missouri State University.

Rusty and his wife Julie, have served as youth leaders at their church for more than 35 years, leading countless mission trips and serving at summer church camp as well. Currently they serve in the youth department at James River West Campus, and hold Life Group meetings for teens in their home.

A Kickapoo High School graduate, Rusty holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Central Missouri where he played football.

Rusty and Julie have been married for 40 years and are proud parents of four children and six grandchildren.

On Jan. 8, 2019 John C. Russell was appointed as Greene County Commissioner, District 2, by Governor Mike Parson. He was confirmed by the Missouri State Senate in February.

Russell holds a degree in business administration from the University of Missouri and has extensive experience in business management, having launched and operated a local insurance business and been involved with a local manufacturing operation. 

Russell also previously served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt where he oversaw operations, as well as served as the liaison between the governor and the Department of Economic Development.

Currently, Russell serves as the board president-elect for the Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks and is a member of the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce.  He and his wife reside in Eastern Greene County with their two children.