Rod is a 32-year career elementary school teacher retiree with ten years of post-retirement substitute teaching. During his career, he was a long-standing middle school track and field coach and high school cross country coach, as well as a volunteer in youth sports as a coach, gym monitor, and referee. He has also owned and operated two small businesses; a Christmas tree growing and retailing operation, and a custom awards business (trophies, plaques, mugs, hats, T-shirts). Rod is a lifelong volunteer in local, state, and national politics in support of maintaining a strong and free Constitutional Republic for generations to come. He is an active volunteer in children’s ministry and as a church council/board member. He enjoys serving his community as a board director of the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District.