Randall John “Randy” Hekman (born May 9, 1947) is a Navy veteran, former prosecutor and juvenile court judge. In early 2011 he announced his intentions to run for the United  Party.

Early life, education and career

Hekman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to John and Mary Lou Hekman. He is the second of four children. He attended Wheaton Academy (West Chicago, IL) and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. from the Sloan School of Management in 1969. He then received his JD in Law from The

Political Positions

Randy Hekman runs as a Republican. The key planks of his U.S. Senate campaign are:

- Balance federal budgets expeditiously through a reduction in the enormous size of government without raising taxes.

- Take aggressive action to begin paying off our staggering $14+ trillion deficit now, again through cost cutting, not raising taxes.

- Deal realistically with astronomically large unfunded entitlement liabilities in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

- Encourage the non-profit sector to greatly increase its contribution to human need caused by the federal government’s major reductions; consider a nominal tax credit for individuals who contribute at least 10 percent of their gross income to non-profit entities.

Personal Life

Randy Hekman married Marcia Bealer of Fenton, IL, in 1969. They have 12 children, ages 18 to 40, and 21 grandchildren. Their children are: Michelle, Renee, Alicia, Marianne, David, Suzanne, John, Scott, Laurie, Daniel, Angela, and Nathan. Each of the ten Hekman children who has graduated from college attended a different college from his or her siblings.