Building Our Future Together
I'm Leslie Herrick — born and raised in Dearborn, a mom, two-term Dearborn City Council member, and Council President Pro Tem, running for State Representative in Michigan's 15th District. After decades of professional and volunteer service benefiting the Dearborn and Dearborn Heights community, I'm asking for YOUR VOTE on or before August 4, 2026.Proven leadership. Real Results. Now let's take that fight to Lansing!
I'm fighting for safe neighborhoods.
For Dearborn. For Dearborn Heights. For all of us.
Where Leslie stands
Families in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights deserve a State Representative who puts them first — not big corporations or Lansing insiders. Here's what Leslie will go to work on in Lansing.
Fighting Rising Costs, Creating Good Jobs
As a single mom, Leslie knows how it feels when food, gas, prescriptions, insurance, and housing keep climbing. She'll fight for working families — workforce training, incentives for employers who hire locally, real support for the small businesses that anchor our neighborhoods, and an end to empty corporate giveaways. And she'll always stand with labor, because unions built the middle class.
Investing in Students & Schools
As a mom and former Dearborn Public Schools employee, Leslie knows strong schools are the foundation of opportunity. She'll fight to modernize school buildings, push for fair pay and respect for teachers, expand special education support and career and technical training — and make sure every child learns to read by fourth grade so they're ready to read to learn.
Affordable, Quality Health Care
No family should choose between paying the bills and getting care. Leslie will push to lower prescription costs, hold insurance companies accountable, and expand community health centers and urgent care close to home — with mental health and addiction services treated as the priorities they are. And decisions about reproductive health belong to the individual, not politicians.
Public Safety & First Responders
Safe neighborhoods start with first responders who have the staffing, training, equipment, and benefits to protect and serve — and with prevention that stops emergencies before they start: community policing, mental health crisis services, violence interruption, and investments in our youth. Leslie also backs common-sense gun safety, including universal background checks and extreme-risk protection orders.
Clean Air, Safe Water & Flood Protection
Growing up in Dearborn — and at her father's business in southwest Detroit — Leslie saw what industrial pollution does to families. Asthma rates here are among the highest in the country. She'll strictly enforce pollution rules, hold corporate polluters accountable, invest in green infrastructure and flood prevention, and make Michigan a leader in renewable energy and the good jobs that come with it.
Roads, Transit & Infrastructure
Crumbling streets are unsafe and expensive — and beneath them, decades-old water and sewer systems are failing, flooding basements across our communities. Leslie saw on Council how costly it is to play catch-up. In Lansing she'll fight for real investment in roads and underground systems now, plus better public transit and a statewide EV charging buildout.
Housing Families Can Afford
Michigan's housing shortage has driven prices up, priced renters out, and left first-time buyers behind. Leslie supports state action with funding and accountability that puts families ahead of developers — including updated zoning and smarter use of land for new homes, apartments, and multi-family housing — so people can put down roots and stay in the neighborhoods they love.
Standing Up for Every Michigander
Michigan is strongest when everyone is safe, respected, and included. Leslie will defend civil rights and voting rights, protect immigrant families from unfair targeting, expand language access in schools and government — continuing her work bringing bilingual ballots to Dearborn — and make sure veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities get the services they deserve. And when war touches our community, Leslie speaks out: she has condemned the war on Iran, commended Dearborn Heights' ceasefire resolution, and is demanding leaders at every level say it plainly — stop the war now.
Leslie delivered for Dearborn. She'll deliver for District 15.
Two terms on the Dearborn City Council, 2018–2025. Every decision focused on quality of life and opportunity for residents — and the results show.
Safer streets, less crime
Fully staffed police and fire, traffic calming that works — speed humps, raised crosswalks, radar signs — and record enforcement against reckless driving. In 2024 burglaries fell 30%, vehicle thefts 22%, and home invasions 35%, making Dearborn Michigan's 2nd-safest big city.
Flood protection & infrastructure
Over $25 million for road repairs, water main upgrades, and flood prevention. Funded clearing of Rouge River log jams, built dozens of bioswales and rain gardens, and pushed an independent sewer study that helped secure millions in outside funds.
Held polluters accountable
Introduced an ordinance penalizing corporate polluters and reducing fugitive dust, fought for free easement trees for every household, funded lead water line replacement, and pushed the city to re-activate its Environmental Commission.
Parks & community spaces
$30 million invested in parks — recreation courts, inclusive playscapes, new PEACE parks, more soccer fields and pickleball courts — plus $6 million to rebuild three pools with free admission for kids under 13 and $2.5 million in Camp Dearborn upgrades.
Seniors & accessibility
Modernized senior apartments, expanded SMART bus access so seniors stay independent, free SilverSneakers fitness at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center for seniors with qualifying health plans, and new voices recruited to the Senior and Disability Concerns commissions.
Responsible with your money
Balanced budgets every year, Dearborn's lowest tax rate since 2010, a new grants department to fund services without raising taxes — plus bilingual ballots, new election equipment, and nine days of early voting.
Training with our firefighters
Leslie suited up with Dearborn firefighters to understand the job first-hand — and fights for their staffing, equipment, and long-term health benefits.
Side by side after the floods
When basements flooded across our communities, Leslie was out with volunteers helping neighbors clean up — then fought for the investments to keep it from happening again.
Eyes on our infrastructure
From pump stations to power houses, Leslie does the homework — seeing the systems beneath our feet before voting on the dollars that fix them.
Volunteer of the Year
In 2017, Leslie was honored for her volunteer work supporting Dearborn students and schools.
Rooted here. Working for us.
A Dearborn story
Leslie Herrick grew up in Dearborn, the daughter of small business owners. At her father's shop in southwest Detroit she learned two things that still guide her: what a changing economy does to a working family, and that unions built the middle class.
As a single mom and a former Dearborn Public Schools employee, Leslie knows what families here juggle every day. She built a career in public relations serving Dearborn institutions, led the planning of the Dearborn Homecoming festival, and was honored as the Dearborn Education Foundation's 2017 Volunteer of the Year for her work supporting students and schools.
Proven on the City Council
Across two terms on the Dearborn City Council (2018–2025) — serving as Council President Pro Tem — Leslie put families and neighborhoods first: fully staffed police and fire departments, more than $25 million for roads and flood protection, penalties on corporate polluters, modernized parks and senior housing, bilingual ballots, and balanced budgets with Dearborn's lowest tax rate since 2010.
Now she's running for the open State House seat in District 15 — to bring that same hands-on, results-first leadership to Lansing for west Dearborn and Dearborn Heights.
See Leslie's nonpartisan profile on Ballotpedia and the BallotReady voter guide.
Building the future of Dearborn & Dearborn Heights — together.
Dearborn and Dearborn Heights were built by hardworking families — some here for generations, some who just arrived. I'm running for a District 15 where every family can afford a home, a doctor, and a dignified retirement; where our schools prepare every child to succeed; where the air is clean, the water is safe, and basements stay dry; and where every neighbor is treated with dignity and respect. That's the future we can build together — and I won't stop fighting until we do.
— Leslie Herrick
Proudly endorsed by
Leaders from across the district, Wayne County, and Michigan are standing with Leslie.
“As a lifelong Dearborn Heights resident and now City Councilwoman, I know Leslie Herrick is who we need in Lansing fighting for our city. From our families to our businesses, schools, and senior citizens, Leslie will get the work done and deliver for Dearborn Heights. Please join me in voting for Leslie Herrick for State Representative on Tuesday, August 4!”
— Nancy Bryer, Dearborn Heights City CouncilwomanLeslie in the community & the press
Independent coverage and recognition of Leslie's record, service, and candidacy.
★ Newspaper EndorsementEndorsed by the Detroit Free Press editorial boardRead the 2026 Michigan House endorsements →Come meet Leslie in the district
Coffee hours, meet & greets, canvasses, and house parties across west Dearborn and Dearborn Heights — every event is open, and we'd love to see you. Want to host a meet & greet on your block? Email the campaign or use the volunteer form below.
Michigan State House District 15
District 15 covers west Dearborn and nearly all of Dearborn Heights. Not sure if you're in HD-15? Look up your address below. New to Michigan or need to update your registration? You can do it online in minutes.
Michigan State House District 15 outlined in navy. Covers west Dearborn and nearly all of Dearborn Heights. Source: US Census 2025 (reflects the 2024 court-approved remedial map in effect for the 2026 election).
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Statements from Leslie
Leslie says where she stands — and stands with our community. Read her official statements below, and find more on the campaign's Facebook page.
Out in the community
Where you'll find Leslie: with neighbors, at groundbreakings, and standing up for our communities. For interviews and media inquiries, email leslieherrickformichigan@gmail.com.
Marching with Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Celebrating Dearborn's Memorial Day Parade with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and the Dearborn Democratic Club.
A delegate for our community
With Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib at the 2026 Michigan Democrats State Endorsement Convention, where Leslie served as a delegate.
With Governor Whitmer
Leslie with Governor Gretchen Whitmer at a Fight Like Hell PAC event.
Investing in our students
As Rotary Club of Dearborn president, Leslie presents the 2026 Hugh Archer Memorial Scholarship to a graduating Dearborn student.
Patron of the Year
On behalf of the Dearborn Rotary, Leslie accepted the Patron Award at the Dearborn Mayor's Arts Awards.
PEACE Park groundbreaking
Shovels in the dirt on one of the new neighborhood parks Leslie championed on Council.
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We win this together
Leslie can't do this alone — and wouldn't want to. Whether you have five minutes or five hours a week, there's a place for you on this team.
