TAR Officers

Kaitlyn Randall, Chair

Zoe Cope, Vice-Chair

Ozzie Snedecker, Secretary

Dan Jiao, Treasurer

District Map

Advisory Board

Dusty Johnson, state advisor

Tom Muenster

Mike Mehlhaff, Jr.

Samantha Walder

Contact Us

PO Box 1099

Pierre, SD 57501

605-280-5511

StateAdvisor@sdtars.com

Leadership

TARs is led by an executive board, elected by the TARs at their annual convention at Camp Rimrock each July. This year Kaitlyn Randall of Aberdeen is serving as TAR Chair.

There is also an advisory board that helps the executive board, and plans major events, such as TAR Days and TAR Camp. Public Utilities Commissioner Dusty Johnson serves as the state advisor to the Teen Age Republicans.

Kaitlyn Randall, 2009-2010 TAR Chairman

Kaitlyn is a senior at Roncalli High School in Aberdeen. Her parents are Dana and Becky Randall, and she has older sister Amanda, who served as State TAR Chairman in 2007-2008.

Kaitlyn is involved with tennis cheerleading and served as last year's TAR State Treasurer. As chair, plans to strengthen the TAR organization across the state, preparing it to help elect Republican candidates in 2010. She is pictured here with Governor Mike Rounds at the 2009 TAR Leadership Camp.

Dusty Johnson, State TAR Advisor

Dusty is a former TAR and served as TAR Chairman in 1994. He and his wife Jacquelyn live in Mitchell where Jacquelyn is a financial advisor. They have two sons, Max and Ben. Dusty is a former senior policy advisor to Governor Mike Rounds, and in 2004 he was elected statewide (with the help of TARs across the state) to the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission. At the PUC he has been a leader in renewable energy, telecommunications, and protecting consumers.