“Hi I’m Derrick Nowlin. I’m excited to be running to represent Southwest Springfield. I spent my formative years playing until the lights came on in the Oak Grove neighborhood. I graduated from Glendale High School and attended Missouri State University studying physics and engineering. I was lucky to be able to raise my kids here. Now, I watch my grandchild play in the same parks I did as a kid.

I spent twenty years of my life as a land surveyor working on many of the exciting changes in Springfield, including the 65 and James River Freeway interchange. For the last twelve years I’ve worked for a sign company in town doing in house engineering. I work with businesses and city governments to place signs across the country.

As your representative, I will fight for more affordable access to healthcare, safer roads and bridges for our families, and better funded schools for our children. I will be your representative who will fight for a better tomorrow.”

-Derrick