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DISTRICTS AS THEY COVER THE GROUND · HOLDERS AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
This ground sends its people to Indianapolis through two district seats, and both are currently — and unusually — held by Granger's own residents. The Senate seat is District 11, covering portions of St. Joseph and Elkhart counties: Joe Zakas held it before Linda Rogers, who assumed office November 7, 2018. Rogers resides in Granger with her husband Mike, and her biography is a Granger business biography as well — nearly forty years in Michiana as a small-business owner, operating Juday Creek Golf Course, on this ground, and Nugent Builders, a custom home builder. She has chaired the Senate Family and Children Services and Pensions and Labor committees. Her tenure closes with the 2026 election: on November 3, 2026, Democrat Gabrianna Gratzol defeated Republican Brian Schmutzler for District 11 — Rogers not on the ballot, on the Tribune's report — and Gratzol takes the seat in 2027, ending, for the first time since 2018, the ground's run of being represented in the Senate by one of its own residents.
The House seat is District 5: Craig R. Fry held it before Dale R. DeVon, who assumed office November 20, 2012, and holds it as of November 2026. DeVon was born in Clay Township, has lived in Granger since 1989, is a home builder (DeVon Custom Homes), and came to the State House from this ground's county seat — he was elected to the County Council's District C in 2002 and served there until his election to the House in 2012, chairing the council's Land Use Committee; in Indianapolis he chairs the House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee. His 2026 re-election contest, against Democrat Alex Wait on the November 3 ballot, stands in the record reached as a ballot cast; the certified result rides the clerk's precinct summary, the same settler as the banked leg's GAP-GOV-1. Behind the two modern seats the line has one earlier Granger name and one boundary name, both carried in the banked People leg: Michael A. Dvorak of Granger sat in the Indiana House before his prosecutor's term, and his son Ryan Dvorak succeeded him in the House in 2002 — the son seated from South Bend, the file dividing the two generations at the CDP line. The county's earlier statehouse names, and the senate line before Zakas under older district numbers, are named here as this article's residue: settling sources, the Indiana General Assembly's legislative directories by district and the Biographical Directory rosters at the Indiana State Library.
Sources: Indiana Senate Republicans, senator biography of Linda Rogers (served District 11 since her 2018 election; portions of Elkhart and St. Joseph counties; resides in Granger; Juday Creek Golf Course and Nugent Builders; committee chairs); the Rogers biography record (assumed office November 7, 2018; preceded by Joe Zakas). South Bend Tribune, November 9, 2026 (District 11: Gratzol over Schmutzler). Vote Smart and Indiana House Republicans biographies of Dale DeVon (born July 25, 1958, Clay Township; home city Granger; lived in Granger since 1989; House District 5, assumed office November 20, 2012, preceded by Craig R. Fry; County Council District C from 2002; home builder). South Bend Tribune, October 13, 2026 (the DeVon–Wait ballot). Banked People leg (the Dvoraks).