Glenn Church Bio

Glenn Church has been working since he was a kid, hoeing weeds, running a dump truck, building a business from scratch. His family has called North Monterey County home since 1868, when his great-grandfather settled along the Elkhorn Slough to start a dairy farm. Glenn was born in Salinas in 1959 and raised on the family Christmas tree farm on Hidden Valley Road. His father, Warren Church, served three terms as Monterey County Supervisor, and Glenn grew up attending board meetings and walking precincts before the age of ten.

He graduated valedictorian from Hartnell College and attended UC Santa Cruz, paying his way with an old dump truck and a small hauling business. For more than 30 years he ran Pacific Coast Soils, a landscape supply company, and he still runs the family Christmas tree farm. He co-authored Humbled: How California's Monterey Bay Escaped Industrial Ruin with his wife, journalist Kathy McKenzie.

He did not run for office to climb a ladder. He ran because government should work for the people who grow our food, fix our roads, and raise families here. Voters elected him to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 2022.

As Supervisor, Glenn has delivered eighteen million dollars for road repairs, raised dumping fines from one hundred to ten thousand dollars, and held more than thirty-six town halls in a single term. When the Pajaro River flooded in 2023, he held meeting after meeting, listened to every family, and directed fifty million dollars in recovery the way the community wanted it. When the largest battery fire in the world hit Moss Landing, he demanded transparency and accountability.

Protecting this place means showing up when it is hard,

not just when it is easy.

That is the job, and Glenn Church is not going anywhere.