Hello! Thank you for your interest in Theresa Meshes as your representative of McHenry County District 1.
Theresa Meshes’s experiences volunteering, teaching, working for a small business, and raising her family has molded her into a person who represents your interests with fervency.
Theresa Meshes has been serving on the County Board since December 2020.
- Administrative Services Standing Committee (2022-2024): Current Vice Chair
- Finance and Audit Standing Commitee (2022-2024)
- Planning, Environment, and Development Standing Committee (2020-2022)
- Public Health and Community Services Standing Committee (2020-2022)
- Valley Hi Operating Standing Committee (2021-2024): Current Chair
- Senior Services Grant Commission (2020-2024)
- Stormwater Commission (2020-2024)
- Substance Abuse Coalition (2020-2024)
- University of Illinois Extension (2020-2022)
- Masters Degree in Mathematics from Northern Illinois University
- Bachelor’s Degree with Distinction in Mathematics from Dominican University
- Certificate in Accounting from Harper College
- Certificate Quality Assurance/Quality Control IDOT
- Mathematics Teacher: 4th Grade-College Level Mathematics
- History Teacher: Middle School American History
- Loved in Fox River Grove since 2015 with her husband, two sons, and daughter
- Fox River Grove PTO Board
- Joined Board in October 2016
- PTO President: June 2018 – August 2020
- PTO Treasurer: August 2020 – September 2022
- PTO Assistant Treasurer: Since September 2022
- Active in School District 3 volunteering since 2015
- Girl Scout Troop 480 Leader since 2022
- Supporter of unions
- Previous member of UFCW & IFT-AFT
- Lifelong Catholic
- Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister (1997-2015)
- Religious Education (1998-2003, 2004-2009, 2019-2022)
- Homebound Ministry (2015-2019)
- Volunteered for Salvation Army’s Golden Diners Program (2015-2018)
- Election Judge for McHenry County (November 2018 & March 2019)
- Invaluable experience working for a beginning small business
- Accounting
- Record keeping
- Parts runner
- QA/QC technician
Theresa Meshes for McHenry County District 1 