Summer Johnson

Summer Johnson is a Republican candidate for New York State Assembly in the 130th District, bringing a rare combination of local executive experience, county-level leadership, policy analysis, and lived family conviction to the race.

A former Marion Town Supervisor and former member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors, Summer has governed where decisions become real: town budgets, public safety, infrastructure, emergency services, hiring policies, and taxpayer accountability.

During her time in local government, she worked to strengthen transparency, increase revenues, pursue grant opportunities, and author Marion’s first comprehensive hiring policy to promote fairness, compliance, and accountability.

At the county level, Summer served as Chair of the Health and Medical Committee and worked on the crisis management team tasked with stabilizing the Wayne County Nursing Home. She also testified before New York State OSHA on fire department training requirements, advocating for firefighter safety while defending realistic standards for local departments already stretched by staffing, funding, and regulatory pressure.

Professionally, Summer serves as Senior Policy Analyst for New York Families for Tomorrow and is a trained paralegal with experience in legislative review, regulatory analysis, family-law reform, parental rights, and pro se legal education. Her work is rooted in a belief that families are the first institution of a free society and that government must protect, not replace, parental authority.

Summer’s story is deeply personal. A former teen mother who worked her way through college, she understands the pressure facing working families because she has lived it. As the wife of a disabled War on Terror OEF veteran, she also understands sacrifice, service, caregiving, and the cost of freedom at the household level.

Her campaign is built around principled leadership, local control, strong schools, public safety, fiscal discipline, constitutional rights, family stability, and a renewed respect for the voices of families, farmers, veterans, first responders, small businesses, and working people across the 130th District.

Summer Johnson is running to bring Albany back down to earth, where budgets have deadlines, families have authority, work has dignity, and communities deserve to be heard.