Kolbe Seeking State Representative District 22 Seat
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Jennifer Peryam-jperyam@timesuniononline.com
David C. Kolbe has filed with the Indiana Secretary of State’s office seeking the primary nomination on the Democrat ticket for the office of the Indiana House of Representatives District 22 seat. The seat is currently held by Rebecca Kubacki. Republican Curt Nisly also has filed for the seat. Kolbe has been an attorney in Warsaw for more than 32 years and previously served as the prosecuting attorney for Kosciusko County. He was an adjunct instructor in political science for IPFW for approximately 15 years. He currently is a visiting senior professor for the Center for International Legal Studies based in Salzburg, Austria. He has taught rule of law since 2008 in former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe including Ukraine, Latvia, Poland and Hungary. In March he will travel to Salzburg, Austria, to teach the 2014 class of incoming senior visiting professors. He is a former Kosciusko County Right to Life board member, former board member and president of the Kosciusko Community YMCA, current member and former national board member of Democrats for Life, a pro-life organization within the Democrat party representing some of the 22 million pro-life Democrats in the United States. He currently serves as a board member for the City-County Athletic Complex, Warsaw. He graduated from Indiana University, South Bend, in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in modern European history and obtained his juris doctor degree from Valparaiso University in 1981. In 2002 Kolbe traveled to Cuba with a legal/cultural exchange delegation where he met with Cuban officials, law school representatives and lawyers. Kolbe and his wife, Kathy, live south of Warsaw and are parents of seven children. “I have dedicated my whole career to the rule of law in the judicial branch of government. I look forward to offering my gifts now in the legislative branch,” Kolbe said.
