Northport resident Jessica Wilson, which many people know as the current Leelanau Township clerk, has always called the county home. However, her journey back to the area with her family meant living and working at different places until finding her home in the village again.
Wilson was born in Topeka, Kansas, moving to Northport when she was just 3-years-old. Growing up, she loved dance and practiced it for 14 years at the Dance Arts Academy in Traverse City, until she switched her attention to sports and schooling. A Suttons Bay Public School class of 2008 graduate, Wilson decided to move to New York City right after high school to go to cosmetology school, pursuing a different passion but still following her dream of wanting to relocate to the city.
“It was great. I had visited once before with my aunt and uncle for like a week or two, and I was like ‘I have to go,’” Wilson said.
