Glen Ellyn resident Creswell on Coolidge: 'We need a sheriff who respects the well-being of women'

Glen Ellyn mother Stacy Creswell says DuPage County voters are about to hand their top law enforcement job to a man trailed by a harassment complaint, an alleged affair with a murdered jail nurse and a federal excessive-force lawsuit, and she wants him stopped at the ballot box. 

Creswell said that Democrat sheriff candidate Peter Coolidge has shown “no respect for women,” and that DuPage County cannot risk putting him in charge of its jail and its deputies on Nov. 3.

“As a Glen Ellyn resident, I want our next DuPage County Sheriff focused on keeping our families, neighborhoods, and downtown safe,” Creswell told DuPage Policy Journal. “Like many neighbors, I am deeply concerned about the growing homelessness problem in downtown Glen Ellyn, and about the housing and demographic changes that will come with the Section 8 housing unfortunately planned for our village.”

“Glen Ellyn is a wonderful place to raise a family, shop, dine, and run a business. I want it to stay that way.”

Creswell’s comments come as downtown Glen Ellyn has seen a pattern of disturbances involving homeless individuals, with an anonymous business owner describing threats and erratic behavior near businesses.

Residents noted that existing Illinois and local ordinances already give police the authority to act on such incidents, according to DuPage Policy Journal.

Police have been called numerous times and the village board is aware of the situation, but residents say the problem has continued into the summer months as more families come downtown.

Residents have called for more detailed incident reporting, arguing that “hoping the mentally ill just move on to the next town” is neither a compassionate nor viable long-term strategy.

Creswell said she is backing Noonan because he meets her standard for public safety and law enforcement, while Coolidge does not.

“For me, this election is about public safety, accountability, and strong enforcement of the law,” Creswell said. “Those are the standards I am looking for in our next sheriff, which is why I am supporting Republican Sean Noonan.”

“We also need a sheriff who respects the well-being of women, something Democratic candidate Coolidge has not demonstrated.” 

Coolidge, who spent 28 years with the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office before retiring in 2024 amid an excessive-force lawsuit, is seeking to become DuPage County’s first Democrat sheriff since the county was founded in 1839.

Police records show he was the subject of a 2018 harassment complaint filed with the Winfield Police Department, in which a woman said she received weeks of unwanted texts and Facebook messages from him and later found a signed card left on her car windshield.

She declined to press charges but asked that he have no further contact with her.

The responding officer later warned Coolidge at the DuPage County Courthouse to stay away from the woman, which Coolidge acknowledged and agreed to. The case was closed with no further action.

An Aurora Police Department report shows Coolidge was also interviewed by detectives two days after the March 2014 strangulation death of DuPage County jail nurse Heather Jacobi, with whom he was allegedly having an affair while married to his then-wife.

Jacobi’s former boyfriend, Jose Loera, became enraged after finding messages from other men, including Coolidge, on her phone, confronted her, and strangled her with a scarf.

Loera confessed and was sentenced to 48 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder. Coolidge divorced his first wife in 2015 and married his current wife in a December 2025 ceremony.

Kristina McCloy, founder of Concerned Parents of Illinois, has also publicly urged DuPage County voters to reject Coolidge, citing the 2018 harassment complaint, his relationship with Jacobi, and the federal excessive force lawsuit he faced.

“Coolidge is a complete pervert,” McCloy said. “He cannot control himself with women.”

McCloy argued that Coolidge’s conduct should disqualify him in the eyes of voters. 

“If they vote in this man, a man with clearly no respect for women, their hypocrisy will be on full display,” she said. “This is not about politics anymore. It is about protecting the women of DuPage County.”

In August 2025, U.S. District Judge Manish S. Shah found that security camera footage did not conclusively contradict the plaintiff’s account that Coolidge slammed, punched and kneed him while subdued on the ground, and ruled a jury must decide whether his actions amounted to excessive force, according to Justia.

The case never reached that trial. DuPage County settled with the plaintiff for $19,000, with $10,000 of that attributed to the incident involving Coolidge, according to Patch.

Noonan, an Oakbrook Terrace police officer with more than 23 years in law enforcement and a former eight-year DuPage County Board member, is running on a platform of public safety, accountability, and taxpayer stewardship.

He won the March primary over then-Undersheriff Eddie Moore, whose campaign was later damaged by a February incident in which he allegedly struck a restaurant employee with his car while smelling of alcohol. The incident also renewed attention on a 2021 Wisconsin bar altercation.

Noonan has flagged low morale in the Sheriff’s Office corrections division as a top priority, pledged to personally work a corrections shift if elected, and said reducing litigation against the office would be a central focus of his administration.

Creswell served as a featured local speaker at the May 6 Concerned Parents of Illinois summit in Glen Ellyn, where she told roughly 100 attendees that the village has about 7,000 consistently conservative voters she wants to engage.

She encouraged attendees to get involved in school board meetings and local elections, offered to help anyone interested in running for office, and urged them to identify and mobilize politically aligned neighbors, saying consistently showing up was “all we’re asking.”