Peter Donegan

Donegan, 59, has served six years on the Wauwatosa Common Council and for three years has been chairman of the Employee Relations Committee. He is also a member of the Budget and Finance Committee and the council liaison to the city's Redevelopment Authority.

Donegan has lived in Wauwatosa for more than 23 years, and he and his wife, Marge, raised two children here, a son who is now 26 and a daughter, 23.

Donegan began his professional career with the Milwaukee Insurance Co., where he was a vice president when the $200 million firm was sold in 1995. He joined a start-up insurance products business as its president and part-owner in 1998 and retired after the partners sold it in 2005. However, the new owners hired him back in 2008 and he stayed on until the company was again sold in July.