https://thebloomingtonchronicle.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=KeltonOConnellThe Bloomington Chronicle - User contributions [en]2026-05-25T07:40:24ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.0https://thebloomingtonchronicle.org/index.php?title=Brandon_Shurr&diff=388Brandon Shurr2025-03-24T13:19:45Z<p>KeltonOConnell: Added Shurr's stepping down from MCCSC board president</p>
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<div>Brandon Shurr is director of the [https://studentlife.indiana.edu/care-advocacy/advocates/help/index.html Student Advocates Office at Indiana University]. Until March 2025, he represented District 7 on the [https://www.mccsc.edu/31505_2 Monroe County Community School Corporation board of trustees].<br />
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He first ran for the District 7 school board seat in 2014 and was defeated by incumbent Jeannine Butler. In 2018 he ran again, this time unopposed, and was elected to a four-year term for District 7. The school board elected him president in 2022. In November of that year he ran unopposed for the District 7 seat and was re-elected for a second term. <br />
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Prior to working at IU, Shurr was pastor at Sacred Heart Church in Bloomington. He has a bachelor’s degree in social work from Ball State University and a master of divinity degree from North Park Theological Seminary. He grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana.<br />
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Shurr is married to Jessica Shurr, a speech and language pathologist with MCCSC. They have 3 daughters.<br />
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'''Timeline: Brandon Shurr'''<br />
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* '''2023-10-24''': Brandon Shurr presides over his last board meeting as president, before stepping down as president of the board.<br />
* '''2022-11-08''': Brandon Shurr is re-elected after running unopposed for the District 7 MCCSC board seat.<br />
* '''2022-01-04''': Brandon Shurr is elected president of the MCCSC board.<br />
* '''2018-11-06''': Brandon Shurr runs unopposed for the District 7 MCCSC board seat and is elected<br />
* '''2015''': Brandon Shurr starts working for Indiana University Student Affairs<br />
* '''2014-11-04''': Brandon Shurr runs for the District 7 MCCSC board seat and is defeated by incumbent Jeannine Butler<br />
* '''2012-??''': Brandon Shurr serves as pastor of [https://www.sacredheartbloomington.org/ Sacred Heart Church] in Bloomington<br />
* '''2004-2008''': Brandon Shurr attends North Park Theological Seminary, studying for a master of divinity degree<br />
* '''??''': Graduates from Ball State University with a bachelor's degree in social work<br />
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