I recently had the honor of sitting down with Indiana Governor Mike Braun for an in-office discussion on faith, leadership, and public service. Governor Braun shares the story behind his call (quite literally) into public life, why he chose to step away from the U.S. Senate to serve his home state, and why faith is important to him personally as an entrepreneur and public servant. We also explore a theme that he routinely champions in his administration–faith, family, and community–and how and why government and the faith community (distinct in role, but with shared purpose) should work together for the common good. He also explains the importance of signing a first-in-the-nation parental rights law and and creating an environment friendly to families and community collaboration. In sum, here’s his vision for Indiana’s future and why faith, family, and community are key to making Indiana–and the nation–thrive. Mike Braun is the 52nd Governor of Indiana and a conservative outsider who spent his career as a main street entrepreneur building a business and creating thousands of good-paying Hoosier jobs before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018. Mike has lived the American dream and as Governor of Indiana, he will work to preserve the same freedom and opportunity to achieve prosperity for future generations of Hoosiers. After graduating from Jasper High School in 1972 as class president and a letterman in football, basketball, and track, he attended Wabash College. At Wabash, Mike graduated summa cum laude with a degree in economics and as student body president. After college, Mike married Maureen, his high school sweetheart, and the two moved to Boston, where he attended Harvard Business School and earned his MBA. After business school, while the majority of Mike’s classmates took high-paying jobs on Wall Street, he chose to move back to Jasper to raise a family and build a career. After a few years working for a national kitchen cabinet company in Jasper, in 1981, Mike got the entrepreneurial itch and took over a struggling truck equipment company called Meyer Body. Over the next 20 years, Mike lived the hardscrabble existence of a small business owner with 15 employees and his office in a used mobile home. In the early 2000s, Meyer began to grow into a regional company and over the next 15 years grew into a national company that currently employs thousands of Americans with locations in 38 states. During his time growing a national company and serving in the US Senate, Mike never lost track of the lessons learned as a small business owner and has always kept the same main street values. The values of faith, family, and community guided Mike while growing a business and raising a family and have inspired his call to serve fellow Hoosiers throughout the years. Mike began his public service as a member of the local School Board for ten years and then as a State Representative from 2014-2017. Mike has been a conservative voice for Hoosiers since his historic victory in the 2018 US Senate election, having led over 40 bills into law and was named the most effective first-term Republican Senator. Mike has also consistently been ranked as one of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, earning endorsements from Americans for Prosperity and CPAC, and maintains excellent ratings from the NRA, Family Research Council, National Right to Life, and Susan B. Anthony List. Mike is an avid outdoorsman and enthusiastic morel mushroom hunter every spring. Mike and Maureen have been married for 49 years and have four adult children and seven grandchildren. For more information about his office, follow this link. Key Links: Link to Governor Braun’s 2026 State of the State Address. First-in-the-nation parental rights law – HB 1412 (2025); broad protections for parental rights – SB 143 (2025). Religious liberty protections for religious foster care and adoptive parents and religious organizations – HB 1389 (2026). Link to Called to Care Initiative. The post #423 The Importance of Faith, Family, and Community in Making Indiana Thrive with Governor Mike Braun first appeared on The Good Citizen Project.
