Jeffrey Walter

In his Ballotpedia Candidate Connection biography, Walter describes himself as a retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9) with more than three decades of experience across leadership, public service and technology consulting.[2] He says he worked as a senior manager at Accenture, where he led over $36 million in IT programs including 13 generative-AI proof-of-concepts and cloud and data migrations, especially in healthcare and telecommunications.[2]

Shaw Local describes Walter as a retired IT consultant who served as an Elburn village trustee before becoming village president (mayor); it listed his age as 65 in March 2026.[5] As mayor, he says, he has championed smart growth, regional collaboration, infrastructure investment and public safety, and modernized village governance through long-term strategic planning.[2] Walter won the four-candidate Republican primary for Illinois's 11th District on March 17, 2026, and faced incumbent Bill Foster in the general election.[1] During the campaign, he said he was running on fiscal responsibility, public safety, veterans' health care and infrastructure investment.[1][2] He received 35.7% of the vote to Bill Foster's 64.3%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[3]