About John
John Backer was born and raised in a small town in Tennessee and is a lifelong Republican. The Air Force brought him to Tucson on July 4, 1984 to serve as an Aircraft Electrician on the A-10 at Davis-Monthan – later working on F-16s and A-7s at the Arizona National Guard in Tucson. John has spent most of his adult life in the Tucson area. He is married and the father of a blended family of 4 adult daughters and an adult son – John is also a grandfather of 5 (soon to be 6) children ranging in age from newborn to 13.
John has earned four college degrees including a Masters, Bachelors, and two Associates degrees.
John is currently serving our community as:
- The Chairman of the Town of Sahuarita Planning and Zoning Commission
- Elected PC – LD19
Previously, John served our community as:
- An Arizona Republican Party State Committeeman representing LD2 – 2018-2020, and 2020-2022
- A Pima County Board of Adjustment commissioner for Pima County District 4
- LD2 3rd vice chair
- D2 1st vice chair (for a short time prior to running for County Supervisor)
- Served on the Town of Sahuarita visioning committee for the Sahuarita Square project
- Served on the Pima GOP nominations committee in 2018
Additional Community Involvement:
- Cub Master for pack 328 for 4 years
- Assistant Cub Master for 1 year
- Recreation league sports coach for soccer, basketball, and volleyball
- Junior Achievement – taught elementary students the JA curriculum
- Habitat for Humanity – volunteered to help build homes
- Neighborhood Watch Co-Coordinator for 3 years – Madera Highlands
- HOA advisory committee member for 1 year – Madera Highlands
In addition to running for public office himself twice, he has helped several Republican candidates including his daughter Brianna Hamilton who won a seat on the Flowing Wells School Board. John helped by:
- conducting data analysis for the campaign
- participating in flag waves
- walking neighborhoods
- leveraging social media
- participating in events
- texting voters
John has 30 years of technology experience – including 10 years working at IBM on a World-Wide Visual Analytics Team which helped clients:
- Fight terrorism
- Find fraud, waste, and abuse
- Make sense out of large amounts of data
Over the last 4+ years, John has been working for a Tucson based software company as their Director of Business Development and Client Success. The company and John are proud to serve the law enforcement community.
John is also a Realtor and leads The Backer Team consisting of real estate agents from Nogales to Tucson and reaching into Phoenix.