SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor resigned Tuesday from his position as vice-chair of the county Board of Supervisors while remaining as a county supervisor. Jeremy Taylor’s resignation was approved unanimously. Supervisor Mark Nelson was voted unanimously as the vice-chair for the rest of the 2023 session.

Calls for Jeremy Taylor to resign came after his wife, Kim Taylor, was found guilty on Nov. 21 of more than 50 counts of federal election fraud charges. The fraud charges stem from when Jeremy Taylor was a candidate for U.S. Representative of Iowa’s 4th District in June 2020 and again during the 2020 general election when he successfully ran for Woodbury County Supervisor, the seat he now holds. A trial brief in Kim Taylor’s case identified Jeremy Taylor as an “unindicted co-conspirator.”

In the Nov. 28 Supervisor meeting, County Auditor Patrick Gill asked supervisors to approve a request of the Iowa Attorney General to investigate Jeremy Taylor’s actions. However, on Tuesday night, the board decided to not take any action on that resolution.