Mike has been a seasonal resident on Booth Lake beginning in 1964. He and his wife, an East Troy teacher, became permanent residents in 1997. Mike retired as a science teacher from the West Allis school district in 2010, then teaching part time at UWM. Currently, Mike works as a ski instructor at Alpine Valley, volunteers at the ET Pickleball courts, and is a pilot based at the East Troy airport. He and his wife have a son, a 2020 graduate of ETHS, currently a student at Columbia University.

James (Jim) R. Bodendorfer is currently the Vice President – Business Lending in the East Troy branch for First Citizens State Bank. Jim has over 35 years of banking experience and is excited to work with all of the areas business customers in helping to make their business a success.

Jim was born and raised in Mequon and graduated from UW-Oshkosh with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance.

During his time in banking, Jim’s greatest joy is the ability to assist all business owners, both large and small, with the community bank touch of providing great service and terms to help the business continue to be successful.

Jim is proud to be a part of the East Troy community and assist the area with support for area organizations that contribute to the quality of life that East Troy enjoys. The East Troy Area Community Foundation is celebrating its 13 year anniversary in December 2023.

I am a lifelong resident of the communities of East Troy, currently residing in the Village of East Troy together with my Husband, David. A 1974 Graduate of East Troy High School with secondary education at Gateway Technical College pursuant to my degree in Business and Finance.

I have recently retired from a 48 year career in Banking. My experience included State Bank of East Troy for 27 years and 21 Years with First Citizen State Bank.

First Citizens State Bank brought to East Troy a new opportunity for personal, business and municipal banking. I was hired to manage this new office and take on the challenge of promoting First Citizens State Bank to the East Troy area. I have been blessed with a vast knowledge of the communities of East Troy and thrived on being instrumental to the community's population.

Community Service has been a driving factor throughout my career, serving as a Village Trustee for 4 years which included Village of East Troy Planning Commission. I have also been honored to serve on the Village board of Appeals, the Village of East Troy Election Board, the East Troy Economic Development Board, the Walworth County Economic Development Alliance and the East Troy Education Foundation. I am a member of the Kiwanis Club of Greater East Troy and a forever volunteer to the East Troy Area Chamber of Commerce Memorial Day celebration.

I have great pride in continuing to serve as Secretary to the Board of the East Troy Area Community Foundation, Inc. It is truly an honor to be a part of this foundation as it further reinvigorates my desire to serve the East Troy Communities.

Kim Buchanan has been the Clerk/Treasurer for the Town of East Troy (population 4020) for the past 18 plus years. She is a graduate of Carthage College and holds a B.A. in Business Administration and International Business with a Spanish minor. Kim is a WI Certified Municipal Clerk and a graduate of the UW Green Bay Clerks and Treasurers Institute. She has also been the Treasurer for the Booth Lake Memorial Park Board since 2015.

As a Town Clerk/Treasurer, she wears many hats; from election administration, tax collection, budgeting, payroll, accounts payable to H.R. etc. She currently mentors several Town clerks in Walworth County and in the state of Wisconsin and is the co-chair of the Wisconsin Municipal Clerk’s Association New Clerk’s Class committee.

Kim is a fourth generation resident of the Town of East Troy. She has been married for 35 plus years and is a mom to two sons – a Forestry Consultant in the U.P. and a Civil Engineer in Platteville.

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Rick was born and raised in the East Troy area and is a proud 1980 graduate of East Troy High School.

After attending college at University of Wisconsin – Platteville, he began a career managing student unions and college campus services (food service, bookstores, conference services) at a number of higher education institutions. He worked in senior administrative roles for campuses in Northwest Indiana and Chicago (Valparaiso University, Illinois Institute of Technology, DePaul University, Northwestern University) for 26 years before returning “home” to Wisconsin to serve as the Director of the Student Union at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He literally moved home to the farm he grew up on in Spring Prairie Township. After ten years serving UWM, he retired in 2022 and began a second career as a Senior Consultant for Brailsford & Dunlavey – a consulting firm that supports college campuses in planning facilities and operations. While he spent the majority of his adult life outside of Wisconsin, he has always stayed true to his Wisconsin, Walworth County, and East Troy roots. Rick is excited to work with the ETACF in making a positive difference in the community!

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A proud graduate of East Troy High School (Class of 1970), Rodger Trader returned to town in 1984 to expand Tradecraft, the family-owned woodworking business.

Rodger and his wife Cathy sold the business in 1998 and returned to teaching music. Both were hired by the East Troy Community School District in 2001. Cathy was a mainstay in the music department and was still teaching full time when she passed away in December, 2021. Rodger was the middle and high school choir director until he retired in 2015.

Currently, Rodger is the director of the East Troy Area Children's Choir, which he and Cathy started in 2013. In 2005, he founded the East Troy Community Choir, an adult ensemble open to all area singers. He also keeps busy with woodworking projects in his shop at 2114 Church Street, the original Tradecraft location in the village.