Darcy (Meier) Pinotti is originally from Pine City, Minnesota and works in the finance industry as a technical systems analyst. She holds a bachelor's degree in business from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Darcy and her husband, Jarrod, live in Rush City and have two horses and a Bernese Mountain Dog. She is on the board of the Chisago County Historical Society and is a family historian with an interest in local history, travel and maps!