Mike Bergman

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Bergman is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel who served 26 years, spending much of his career managing development and fielding of new systems and three years on budget issues at the Pentagon, per the campaign site. Bergman holds a BS in microbiology from Iowa State University and master's degrees in business management from Webster University and in national resource strategy from the Eisenhower School, and has served as a mediator for the Sixth Judicial District, per the campaign site. Bergman owns and manages 330 acres of Linn County farmland and has lived in Mount Vernon for 20 years, per the campaign site.