mayoral election
October 31, 2024
Mayor Leichty speaks at convocation
On Wednesday, the Goshen College convocation featured Mayor Gina Leichty, ’95. Leichty’s presentation, titled “The Politician’s Guide to Not Being a Politician,” came at the height of the national election season. Leichty spoke on the dramatic differences between local and national politics, but also acknowledged her own position as the first woman to be mayor of Goshen, and the relevance of the current presidential race which could result in the first woman being elected as president of the United States. Leichty grew emotional telling the story of a young girl who thought that it might be alright to have...
November 9, 2023
Leichty ’96 elected mayor
Candidates affiliated with Goshen College were well-represented in the city elections last Tuesday. Of the 18 candidates, eight were affiliated with GC, four of whom won. All candidates were elected to a four-year term. In the mayoral contest, Gina Leichty, a Democrat, won 54% of the vote to defeat Benjamin Rogers, a Republican. Leichty is the first woman to be elected mayor in Goshen. She graduated from GC in 1996, majoring in English. Leichty received 3,095 votes — the most of any Goshen candidate in the evening — compared to Rogers’ 2,628. In the clerk-treasurer race, Richard Aguirre, a former...