Snohomish County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026

The sitting Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney, per the county's official prosecutor page, who spent nearly 25 years as a county deputy prosecuting attorney including 14 years leading the civil division, per his campaign site. That site credits his office with launching a public law and justice dashboard and recovering nearly 40 million dollars from opioid manufacturers to fund treatment, prevention and recovery p

Priorities: Protecting public safety and delivering fair, unbiased justice, per My Edmonds News · Expanding transparency through the office's public law and justice dashboard, per his campaign site · Strengthening responses to mental health and the opioid crisis, including expanding law enforcement assisted diversion, per his campaign site

President of the Snohomish County PUD board and its sitting District 1 commissioner, per the utility's own commission page, appointed to the board in March 2017 and elected to a six-year term in 2020, per the Everett Herald. He worked eight years as executive director of operations for the Arlington School District and holds a petroleum engineering degree from the University of Alaska, per the PUD commission page, af

Priorities: Finishing the utility's smart meter deployment and holding power costs down, per the Everett Herald · Requiring large data center customers to pay for the infrastructure and energy they need rather than shifting those costs to other ratepayers, per SC News · Funding tree trimming and infrastructure investment for Camano Island and Stanwood, per SC News

A sitting Island County commissioner of eight years, now completing a second term, who worked previously as a teacher and a social worker, per the Everett Herald and SC News. She describes the utility as core infrastructure that can be managed well with long range planning, per the Herald, and argues on her campaign site that households already stretched by higher prices for gas, groceries, health care and housing sh

Priorities: Keeping rates low and energy reliable for households facing rising costs, per her campaign site · Planning energy conservation and grid reliability on a 20 year horizon and pursuing local renewable options, per the Everett Herald · Keeping the cost of very large electricity users from being shifted onto residential ratepayers, per the Everett Herald

A rancher who spent about 10 years as a software engineer at Microsoft before moving into farming, per the Everett Herald. He first sought a seat on the PUD board in 2014 after power outages on his property, per the Herald, and describes himself as a working citizen and lifelong Washington resident with four children, per SC News.

Priorities: Opening the utility's policy making meetings to more public participation, per the Everett Herald · Delivering better value for ratepayer dollars and addressing rate disparities, per SC News · Keeping growing data center demand from pushing the utility toward fossil fuel generation, per the Everett Herald