Mitch Magness has been on the City Council for ten years. He has also served the Harrison Public Schools as a board member for ten years. “I’ve served neither of these offices to achieve anything for myself. I truly want to make our community better,” he said.
Magness has continued to make himself available to the public and has received calls and emails on several issues.
“Harrison is a different city than it was ten years ago. If a city doesn’t grow, it dies, and I think we’ve done a good job with managed growth,” he said. “We are so blessed to be in this community.”
After operating a family business for 25 years with 500 employees, he has a wide variety of experience to bring to any position he serves. “You can’t go back. Those years in the family business were great, but you can’t go back.”
After the family business sold, he worked for a while at another family business, then FedEx, Millbrook, and was comptroller for Pace Industries.
Mitch has an identical twin brother, and as kids, they did play tricks on people. In the 6th grade, their classmates talked them into switching places for the day. One teacher thought it was funny. The other did not. The teachers discovered the switch when their friends wouldn’t stop snickering. Mitch also admits to standing in the “Groom’s” place at his brother’s wedding and switching right before the minister began, “We are gathered here …”
His brother Michael works for Cisco Foods. Mitch feels obligated to tip well in restaurants because the staff thinks he is Michael – and he doesn’t want to hurt his brother’s business contacts. One person even told Mitch, “You sure eat out a lot. I see you in restaurants all the time.” He replied, “Well, there are two of us.”
The Magness home has valued education so highly that all three children have careers in education.
Mitch feels very blessed to work with great friends and co-workers on the boards he serves on and where he has worked. “I still have a former truck driver from our family business who honks as he comes by my office.”
Mitch and Teresa have been married for 41 years and have three children and eight grandchildren.
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