Seattle, Washington sample ballot 2026

Dominique M Scarimbolo is a small business owner and chapter president of the Citizens' Alliance for Property Rights in King County, per her official voters' pamphlet statement.

Foxcurran is a lifelong King County resident who has worked as a city appraiser and hearing examiner, per the campaign site. Foxcurran is running for King County Assessor, per the campaign site.

Manion took office as King County Prosecuting Attorney on January 1, 2023, per the county's official prosecuting attorney page. Before that she co-founded the nonprofit Choose 180 for at-risk youth and helped establish the office's Family Intervention and Restorative Services program, per the campaign site. She has served on the board of the Alliance for Gun Responsibility since 2015, per the campaign site.

Julie Wise is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for King County Director of Elections, per the county's official candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

Angelis is a partner at the law firm K&L Gates with 25 years of legal experience in appellate work and intellectual property litigation, per the campaign site. A past president of the Middle Eastern Legal Association who has done extensive pro bono work representing asylum seekers, Angelis is running for Washington Supreme Court Justice, Position 5, per the campaign site.

Larson is a retired Federal Way Municipal Court judge with 18 years on the bench and 41 years of total legal experience, including work as a trial lawyer, litigation counsel and mediator, per the campaign site. Larson taught new judges for a decade at the state judicial college and previously served as a school board president, per the campaign site.

Stephens has served on the Washington State Supreme Court since 2008 and previously worked as an appellate attorney, law professor and school board director, per the campaign site. Stephens is running for re-election as Washington Supreme Court Justice, Position 7, per the campaign site.

Colleen Melody is the sitting justice for Washington Supreme Court Position 1, appointed by Gov. Bob Ferguson in January 2026, per the Washington Courts website. Before joining the court she spent 11 years as chief of the Civil Rights Division in the Washington Attorney General's Office and worked as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, per the same source. She is a University of Washington School of Law graduate who clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, per her official court biography.

Scott Edwards is an attorney who has practiced constitutional, appellate, and state tax law in Washington for about three decades, per his campaign website. He has worked at Bogle & Gates, Perkins Coie, Ballard Spahr, and, since 2025, Lane Powell, and holds an economics degree from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of Washington, per the same source. This is his first run for elected office, per his campaign website.

David Stevens is a Mason County Superior Court judge, first elected in 2023 and reelected in 2024, per his campaign website. He has worked for more than two decades as a prosecutor and defense attorney in state, federal, tribal, and international courts, including as a Spokane County deputy prosecutor and a U.S. State Department rule-of-law adviser in Afghanistan, per the same source. He holds a law degree from the University of Washington School of Law and served in the U.S. Navy from 1983 to 1989, per his campaign website.

Jaime Michelle Hawk is a King County Superior Court judge, appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee in 2022, per her campaign website. Her earlier legal career included work as a juvenile public defender in Grant County, a federal public defender for Eastern Washington and Idaho, and legal strategy director for the ACLU of Washington, per the same source. She earned her law degree from Gonzaga University in 2004 and has since taught as an adjunct professor there, per her campaign website.

Theo Angelis is the sitting justice for Washington Supreme Court Position 5, appointed by Gov. Bob Ferguson in March 2026, per the Washington Courts website. He spent 26 years as a partner at K&L Gates, where he led the firm's appellate practice and later its intellectual property practice, per his official court biography. He holds degrees from Claremont McKenna College, Oxford University, the London School of Economics, and Yale Law School, per the same source.

Dave Larson is a retired judge who served on the Federal Way Municipal Court from 2008 to 2026, including as presiding judge starting in 2009, per his campaign website. He worked as a civil trial lawyer for 23 years before joining the bench and has previously run for the Washington Supreme Court in 2016, 2020, and 2024 without winning a seat, per the same source. He holds a public administration degree from the University of Puget Sound and a law degree from Seattle University School of Law, per his campaign website.

Debra L. Stephens is the sitting Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, a seat she has held since 2008, per the Washington Courts website. She previously served as a Court of Appeals, Division Three judge and as an adjunct professor at Gonzaga University School of Law, and she is the first woman from Eastern Washington to reach the state's highest court, per her official court biography. A Spokane native, she also spent more than a decade as a local school board director, per the same source.

Todd A. Bloom is an attorney, certified public accountant, and financial planner who has spent more than two decades providing legal and tax services to private and public companies, per his campaign website. He served as an active-duty U.S. Navy officer from 2002 to 2013 after earlier service in the Naval Reserve, and he has worked as a FINRA arbitrator, per the same source. He holds a law degree and MBA from Tulane University and a tax law master's degree from the University of Washington, per his campaign website.