Pierce County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026

A senior vice president at the commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews with more than 30 years in acquisition, leasing and sales across Washington and Idaho, per his campaign site. He started out in commercial construction as an estimator and project manager, and at 19 he founded Canopy Land, a Pierce County camper and canopy retailer he later sold to a manufacturer, per the same site. He is endorsed by the Tacoma

Priorities: Transparent decision making in county government, per his campaign site · Responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, per his campaign site · Government efficiency over partisan agendas, per his campaign site

A project manager for King County who also sits on the Bethel School District Board of Directors as its District 4 director, with a term running to 2027, per the district's official board roster. He holds an associate of applied science from Renton Technical College, studied at the International Culinary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, and completed a project management certification at Rutgers University, per

Priorities: Effective governance and fiscal responsibility, per his campaign site · Protection of civil liberties, per his campaign site

A program manager for Foundational Community Supports who oversees behavioral health crisis response work across five counties, per his campaign site. His career runs through mobile crisis teams, intensive residential treatment and recovery navigation programs, and he holds an associate degree from Pierce College plus peer counseling and crisis intervention certifications, per the same site.

Priorities: Securing utility grids, expanding transit access and finishing sewer and stormwater work to manage growth, per his campaign site · Proactive crisis diversion programs to improve community safety, per his campaign site · Balancing economic growth with environmental stewardship and fiscal accountability, per his campaign site

Director of transformational wellness at Green River College, where she leads a team providing basic needs access and support services to students, per her questionnaire to the 31st District Democrats. She was elected from Pierce County Council District 1 to the county Charter Review Commission and chairs that commission, per the same questionnaire, and campaigns under the slogan finding common ground for the common

Priorities: Steering infrastructure funding toward projects in unincorporated Pierce County, per her campaign site · Transit and road capacity for rural towns such as Orting, Buckley and Graham that have no transit service, per her campaign site · Housing strategies each community picks for itself, from added density to incentives to rental subsidies, per her campaign site

The sitting District 5 councilmember, appointed to the seat in 2025 after serving on the Fife City Council since 2015, per the county's official councilmember page. A lifelong District 5 resident, he is vice chair of both the council's Community Development and Environment Committee and its Public Safety Committee, per the same page. Northwest Asian Weekly named him a top contributor in the Asian community in 2013, p

Priorities: Prioritizing community safety, per his campaign site · Expanding housing affordability at every level, per his campaign site · Investing in transportation and infrastructure, per his campaign site

A licensed real estate agent, small business owner and commercial geoduck diver who has been diving since 2006, per her campaign site. A Puyallup High School graduate and member of the Puyallup Tribe whose grandfather was a former tribal chief, she grew up working at Thunderbird Trading Post, her mother's family business founded in 1975, per the same site. She has served as a PTA president, school volunteer and footb

Priorities: Pushing back on tax increases and keeping county government within its means, per her campaign site · Supporting law enforcement and first responders, per her campaign site · Cutting red tape so local small businesses can grow, per her campaign site

A retired Key Peninsula Fire Department battalion chief with 34 years of service in Pierce County, a small business owner and a two-term Peninsula School Board director who co-founded the Key Free Clinic, per his campaign site. He argues rural residents are overlooked by the current council and has proposed satellite county permitting offices in rural communities, per Gig Harbor Now, which also reports he sought this

Priorities: Opposing tax increases voters do not get to approve, arguing the county has a spending problem rather than a revenue problem, per Gig Harbor Now · Funding jail and court staffing alongside law enforcement, per Gig Harbor Now · Directing growth to urban growth areas while protecting rural character, per Gig Harbor Now

A neonatal nurse practitioner and 45-year Pierce County resident who served on the Gig Harbor City Council, including a term as mayor pro tempore, and represented the city on the Pierce County Regional Council, per her campaign site. She now sits on the Pierce County Charter Review Commission representing District 7, per her campaign site and Gig Harbor Now, and has proposed an independent ombuds office to provide ou

Priorities: Supporting the proposed 0.1 percent public safety sales tax to fund law enforcement, per Gig Harbor Now · Behavioral health and crisis response programs, per KNKX · Directing growth toward urban areas and protecting shorelines, forests, wetlands and wildlife habitat, per Gig Harbor Now

A Seattle police officer and the former president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, which he led for six years, per Gig Harbor Now and KNKX. He moved to Pierce County about five years ago and was initially disqualified from the ballot over a residency requirement before a court challenge restored his candidacy, per Gig Harbor Now. He has called for an emergency audit of the county budget and better contracts for

Priorities: Public safety, so families feel safe in their homes, neighborhoods, schools and businesses, per his campaign site · Fiscal integrity and accountability for every dollar the county spends, per his campaign site · Responsible growth and infrastructure that strengthens communities, per his campaign site

Gig Harbor Now reports Jolie is not actively campaigning for this seat and is urging voters to support Mike Solan, although her name prints on the August 4 ballot. She personally funded a paid advertising campaign pressing the county to raise sheriff's deputy pay and started the advocacy site PierceCountySafe.com to organize support on deputy staffing, per KOMO News, which reports she began the effort after her daugh

Priorities: Raising Pierce County sheriff's deputy pay and filling vacancies, per KOMO News · Increased sheriff's office staffing in the Peninsula Detachment, per Gig Harbor Now

An assistant attorney general for Washington state handling workers' compensation, workplace safety and apprenticeship matters, per his campaign site. He also sits as a judge pro tempore in the Kitsap County and Mason County district courts, per the same site, and runs on a theme of experience, integrity and fairness.

Priorities: Applying the law fairly and impartially, per his campaign site · Treating everyone who comes before the court with dignity, per his campaign site

A deputy prosecuting attorney in the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's Office since 1995 who leads the civil division's government operations and litigation team, per his campaign site. He serves as legal adviser to Pierce County District Court and Juvenile Court and has sat as a judge pro tem in Thurston County District Court, per the same site, and his prosecuting work has covered homicide, trafficking, domestic

Priorities: Promoting public trust in the courts, per his questionnaire to the 31st District Democrats · Improving access to justice by removing language barriers and addressing disability access, per the same questionnaire · Expanding approaches focused on rehabilitation and treatment in substance use and mental health cases, per the same questionnaire

An attorney at the Tacoma firm McGavick Graves who serves as a judge pro tem and has previously served as a municipal court judge and a superior court commissioner, per her questionnaire to the 31st District Democrats. She reports about 11 years of legal experience, per her campaign site, and argues district court is where many people have their first and most direct contact with the justice system.

Priorities: Fairness, integrity and transparency on the bench, per her campaign site · Public trust, so every person feels heard and treated with dignity, per her questionnaire to the 31st District Democrats · Access to justice through clearer communication, language services and efficient procedures, per the same questionnaire

Pierce County Auditor since 2022, running elections for nearly 600,000 registered voters and overseeing recording, licensing and passport services on a 28 million dollar biennial budget, per the county's official auditor page. She holds the Certified Elections Registration Administrator credential, described on that page as the highest professional achievement for election officials in the country. Before taking offi

Priorities: Elections people can trust, per her campaign site · Reliable services people count on, per her campaign site · Experienced, steady leadership of the office, per her campaign site

Pierce County Elections Supervisor from 2014 to 2019 and interim elections manager in Clallam and Cowlitz counties during the 2020 presidential election, per his campaign site. He now works as a network operations supervisor at Lightcurve and describes two decades managing telecommunications, data networking, incident response and around-the-clock critical systems, per the same site, where he argues the auditor's job

Priorities: Transparent elections with trust built on results, per his campaign site · Technology modernization that is practical rather than flashy, per his campaign site · Service equity across the county, at the edges as well as the center, per his campaign site

The chief criminal deputy in the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, per Gig Harbor Now. No campaign site was verifiable at the time of curation, so this profile is deliberately short rather than filled in from unsourced material.

An attorney and retired Pierce County Superior Court judge who spent 28 years on that bench, including service as presiding judge and on the state Board for Judicial Administration, per his campaign site. Pierce County Superior Court announced his retirement from the bench in its own news release. He runs on rebuilding the prosecutor's office after what he describes as a decline in the quality and consistency of lega

Priorities: Mentorship for new attorneys in the office, per his campaign site · Increased funding to retain experienced staff, per his campaign site · Reorganizing the office to strengthen accountability, per his campaign site