Mar 7, 2026 By Conner Goetz 2 min read

Canton Township leadership will experience a shakeup later this month as Supervisor Vice Chairman Richard Horner is set to resign.

According to Horner, he is proactively leaving the position ahead of a move to Ohio, which would render him ineligible to stay on the board of supervisors.

“That’s the only reason. I’ve always gotten along with the other guys on the board since I got elected,” Horner said.

Horner was elected in 2022 to serve a six-year term, the remainder of which will be filled by Canton resident and retired nurse Vickie Fields upon her anticipated appointment during a board meeting later this month.

Although she is a South Strabane native, Fields and her husband moved to Canton in 1988, calling the township home ever since.

Fields, a registered nurse, spent the majority of her career in adult and pediatric home care in addition to a position working on the cardiac unit at UPMC Washington.

Fields ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign in 2025 against incumbent board President Butch Main, who joined the board in January.

According to Fields, it was an amicable race, saying that “I’m still happy (Main) won.”

Fields has known Main and Horner since high school, she said, so their camaraderie only grew during the campaign last year.

Now, Fields said she is excited to begin serving the remaining two years of Horner’s tenure.

Fields has the “drive” to be an effective supervisor, according to Township Manager Stephanie Pettit.

“You need to want to be involved, to communicate with residents and the other board members, and she is,” Pettit said.

Fields is a familiar face in the township office, Pettit said, since she has participated in board meetings as an audience member for over six months.

“I think she’ll be a great addition to the board,” Pettit said.