Jim Hines

SAGINAW, MICH. — In the midst of a successful medical career, Warsaw native Jim Hines, Saginaw, Mich., has announced his plans to run for governor of Michigan.

According to Hines’s campaign website, he was born June 4, 1955, in Warsaw and is a 1973 graduate of Warsaw Community High School. He went on to attend Grace College, Winona Lake, before transferring to Indiana University, Bloomington, where he earned his bachelor of arts degree in chemistry and biology.

He graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1980 and served a three-year family medicine residency in Fort Wayne.

In the 1980s, Hines and his wife, Martha, spent a year in France to study French, then six months in Belguim where Hines studied tropical medicine. From there, the couple moved to the Central African Republic to serve as medical missionaries.

They moved to Saginaw, Mich., in 1987, where Hines completed an OB-GYN residency. He went on to establish the OB department at St. Luke’s Hospital, Saginaw, Mich., From 1992 to 1994, Hines, his wife and their seven sons returned to the Central African Republic for another stint as medical missionaries. They now permanently reside in Saginaw.