Biography

Roger Eddy has been Superintendent at Hutsonville CUSD # 1 for the last 14 years and is currently serving his seventh year as State Representative of the 109th District in east-central Illinois. The 109^th District is composed of all or parts of eight rural counties which border Indiana. He has been a coach, teacher, principal and now Superintendent in Illinois for the past 29 years. His committee assignments in the Illinois House include: Elementary & Secondary Education Regular and Appropriations Committees, Infrastructure Committee, Revenue Committee, and he recently was named Minority Spokesperson for House Computer Technology Committee as well as spokesperson for the Public Policy and Accountability in Education Committee. He also served on and played a leading role in the House Impeachment Committee that resulted in the removal of former Governor Rod Blagojevich from office.

During his time in the General Assembly, he sponsored legislation that placed powdered forms of pseudophedrine products behind retail sales counters and required an I.D. and limited purchases of such products. This law has been credited with a huge decline in meth lab activity in Illinois. He is considered one of the key education experts in the General Assembly and has worked hard for fair and equitable education funding for downstate schools. He was the chairman of the Higher Education Dual Credit Quality Task Force which resulted in the 2009 Dual Credit Quality Act. He is currently a member of the Pension Task Force. In addition he has sponsored several key pieces of legislation which have been helpful in supporting ethanol and alternative fuels in Illinois. His efforts in education and agriculture have resulted in numerous awards during his four terms in the House of Representatives.

He has served on numerous economic development committees and is an executive Board Member and co-founder of the United Way of Crawford County, and Crawford County Leadership. He serves on numerous statewide education advisory boards for Education Funding Reform and Early Childhood Education including the Erikson Institute’s Early Childhood Advisory Board and National St. Louis University’s Funding Reform Commission.

He earned his Masters in Educational Administration from Eastern Illinois University in 1986 and his Specialist Degree in 1996 also from Eastern to go along with his undergraduate degree in education from Northern Illinois University.  Roger and his wife, Becca, (who is an early childhood teacher) have five children: Matt (27), Lisa (24), Brenda (21), Beth (17) and Jessica (15).  He is also the very proud GRANDPARENT of his first grandchild, Bella! Roger and Becca have been married for almost 30 years and reside with their two youngest children in rural Hutsonville.