OMAHA — At least two candidates intend to challenge Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh when she runs for reelection in 2022.

Christian Mirch, a lawyer, and police officer, and Elizabeth Hallgren, a small-business adviser, and educator, have launched campaigns for Cavanaugh’s west-central Omaha district.

District 6 is bordered, roughly, to the north and south by Maple and Pacific streets and to the east and west by 72nd and 144th streets.

Mirch worked as an Omaha police officer for 10 years and left after finishing his law degree to clerk for Nebraska Chief Justice Mike Heavican, he said. He later worked in private practice at an Omaha law firm, he said, then opened his own practice and does some work for the State Department of Labor. He still works part-time as a police officer in Yutan.

Mirch is also on the board of the Set Me Free Project, which offers a curriculum aimed at preventing human trafficking. He was chair of the Douglas County Republican Party but said he stepped down this week in accordance with party guidelines related to running for office.

Hallgren announced her campaign this week in a news release that emphasized similar issues. Her website includes four priorities: reducing taxes, supporting kids in the classroom, creating family-supporting jobs, and restoring civility.

She moved to Omaha in 2009 when her husband was stationed at Offutt Air Force Base. After he retired from the Air Force, they tried living in Colorado, she said, but came back to Nebraska to put down roots because of the community here.

“I think it’s really relevant to the conversation we’re having here in Nebraska about losing people,” she said.

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