Jack Westwood didn't have much political experience in 1996 when he decided to take on Democratic incumbent state Sen. Joe Meyer. He served one term on the Erlanger/Elsmere school board and, about three decades earlier, won an election as class president at Lloyd High School, where he later taught English for 27 years. Westwood, armed with the campaign slogan, "One man can make a difference," pulled off what some at the time called one of the biggest upsets in Northern Kentucky political history when he beat Meyer with 54 percent of the vote. He will enter his 16th and final year next year as state senator from Erlanger.
