Kenneth Runion

Democrat Kenneth Runion has been town supervisor since 2000. He grew up in Rochester and moved to Guilderland in 1974.

Runion has a degree in political science from the State University of New York College at Potsdam and a degree from Albany Law School.

Runion had a private law practice in Delmar for years and has had several elected and appointed positions. As a Republican, he served as Guilderland’s town attorney from 1984 to 1992 and as zoning board attorney from 1992 to ’97. He also served as the mayor of Altamont from 1993 until becoming town supervisor.

Runion and his wife have two grown sons, Kevin and David.

David Bosworth

Democrat David Bosworth Jr. has lived in Guilderland for almost his entire life. He is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and has a degree in public administration from Russel Sage College. He also completed the executive management program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1998.

For 31 years, Bosworth has been the executive director for the Center for Family and Youth, a residential and non-residential child and family services agency that serves at-risk children.

He and his wife have three grown children, Laurel, Jennifer, and David III. They also have a grandson, Benjamin.

Michael Ricard

Democrat Michael Ricard grew up in Albany. He has a two-year degree in accounting from Albany Business College; a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the State University of New York College of Technology in Utica; and a degree in math and biological sciences from Albany Junior College.

Ricard currently is the principal computer programmer for the state’s unified court system.

He has lived in Altamont since 1989 with his wife, Mary. The couple has two grown sons, Tim and Brendan.

Mark Grimm

Republican Mark Grimm was born in Troy and grew up in Grafton (Rensselaer County). He moved to the Woodlake Apartments in Guilderland in 1995 before buying a home in Guilderland in 2001.

He graduated magna cum laude from Siena College in 1978 where he was named a Conlin Scholar, and received a master’s degree in communications from Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Communication.

Grimm is the president of Mark Grimm Communications, a Guilderland media relations and communications training firm.

He lives with his wife Karen (Pauley) Grimm, who is a life-long Guilderland resident, and their 4-year-old daughter.

Warren Redlich

Republican Warren Redlich is a life-long Guilderland resident who graduated from Guilderland High School in 1984.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from Rice University before receiving his master’s degree in political science from Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif.

Redlich also received a degree from Albany Law School in 1994.

He taught English in Hiroshima, Japan, for a year before returning to the area and opening his own law firm in Guilderland called The Redlich Law Firm. His firm has since moved to Washington Avenue Extension in the city of Albany.

Redlich lives with his wife, Heather, and their two daughters, ages 2 and 5, in the Guilderland home they bought in 1999.