Commissioner Robert Mijac (D) District 5

Commissioner Robert Mijac was elected to represent the residents in northern Sterling Heights' District 5. He previously served the district as a commissioner from 1994-2010. He was then re-elected again in 2012 and has continued to serve since then. Mijac was most recently re-elected in November 2018 to serve the 2019-20 term.  

Mijac is a graduate of Sterling Heights High School, and attended Macomb Community College. He earned a bachelors degree in Economics form Michigan State University and a Masters in Business Administration from Wayne State University. He is the owner of Mass Mailing LLC in Sterling Heights.

He is active with St. Lazarus Serbian Orthodox Church an in the Adopt-A-Road Cleanup for Schoenherr Road in Sterling Heights.

Mijac's top priorities as a commissioner are balancing the county budget, preventing a significant number of layoffs, continuing to attract jobs to Macomb County, and ensuring the county "buys locally, hires locally, and invests locally whenever possible so that our tax dollars are creating jobs in our community."