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Pierce County, WA

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Supreme Court Justice Position 4
2 candidates
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Ian Birk
Biography
Ian Birk is a judge with prior experience as a lawyer and appellate practitioner and is a candidate for Washington State Supreme Court, Position 4, per his campaign site.
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Sean O'Donnell
Biography
Sean P. O'Donnell is a King County Superior Court Judge who has served 13 years on the bench, including as Chief Family Court Judge and Chief Criminal Judge, per his campaign site. He previously spent 12 years as a King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor, including service on the Green River Task Force, and is president of the Washington State Superior Court Judges' Association, per his campaign site.
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Supreme Court Justice Position 1
2 candidates
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Colleen Melody
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Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Keeping the court free from the influence of special interests and political bias
  • Running a grassroots campaign funded by individual donors rather than special interests
Per the campaign site (melodyforjustice.com).
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Scott Edwards
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.
Top Priorities
  • Deciding cases based on the law and the record rather than politics or outside pressure
  • Applying clear, principled legal reasoning to strengthen public confidence in the courts
  • Bringing decades of complex litigation experience to the court
Per the campaign site (votescottedwards.com).
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Supreme Court Justice Position 3
2 candidates
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David Stevens
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Applying the law consistently and treating court processes, including jury selection, equally for all parties
  • Keeping the Supreme Court to its constitutional role of interpreting law rather than making policy
  • Requiring that constitutional changes go through formal amendment rather than judicial reinterpretation
Per the campaign site (judgestevensforwa.com).
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Jaime Michelle Hawk
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Protecting rights and freedoms and applying the rule of law fairly, per her campaign site (judgehawk.com)
  • Serving on a Washington Supreme Court commission working to reduce bias in the courts and improve access for working families, per her campaign site (judgehawk.
  • Bringing more than 20 years of experience as a public defender, civil rights attorney, and trial judge to the court, per her campaign site (judgehawk.com)
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Supreme Court Justice Position 5
2 candidates
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Theo Angelis
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Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Faithfully interpreting and applying Washington's constitution and laws
  • Maintaining judicial independence and impartiality to strengthen public trust in the courts
  • Expanding equal access to the legal system, drawing on his pro bono work for asylum seekers and children
Per the campaign site (justiceangelis.com).
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Dave Larson
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Holding to the guiding principle that 'it is more important to do right than it is to be right'
  • Valuing the freedoms of others as much as one's own
  • Supporting public legal education and youth civic engagement programs
Per the campaign site (larsonforjustice.com).
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Supreme Court Justice Position 7
2 candidates
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Debra L. Stephens
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Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Serving as 'a fierce advocate for an independent judiciary'
  • Keeping courts open and accessible to everyone
  • Basing judicial decisions on law rather than politics
Per the campaign site (justicestephens.com).
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Todd A. Bloom
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Applying the law as written rather than as judges might prefer it to read
  • Upholding the state and federal constitutions
  • Ensuring every person who appears in court receives a fair and impartial hearing
Per the campaign site (electtoddbloom.com).
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Countywide races in Pierce County

ZIP 98374 sits in Pierce County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Pierce County races (30).

Pierce County Auditor
2 candidates
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Linda Farmer
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Biography
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 office she worked for the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, Comcast, Pacific Lutheran University and the cities of Tacoma and Federal Way, started out as a newspaper reporter and editor, and served on the Lakewood City Council, per the same page.
Top Priorities
  • Elections people can trust
  • Reliable services people count on
  • Experienced, steady leadership of the office
Per the campaign site.
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Damon Townsend
Biography
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 is fundamentally an operations role.
Top Priorities
  • Transparent elections with trust built on results
  • Technology modernization that is practical rather than flashy
  • Service equity across the county, at the edges as well as the center
Per the campaign site.
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About this race
Nonpartisan county office with two filers, so it does not appear on the August 4 ballot and is decided November 3. Candidates are from the certified filing list at the Washington Secretary of State.
Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney
2 candidates
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Coreen Schnepf
Biography
Coreen Schnepf's Washington voters' pamphlet statement lists Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, working daily to get justice for victims and hold criminals accountable, per the Washington voters' pamphlet statement.
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Bryan Chushcoff
Biography
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 legal services caused by attorney departures, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Mentorship for new attorneys in the office
  • Increased funding to retain experienced staff
  • Reorganizing the office to strengthen accountability
Per the campaign site.
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About this race
Nonpartisan county office with two filers, so it does not appear on the August 4 ballot and is decided November 3. Candidates are from the certified filing list at the Washington Secretary of State. Sitting Prosecutor Mary Robnett is not seeking another term, per the Tacoma News Tribune.
Pierce County District Court No. 1
1 candidate
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Kevin A. McCann
Biography
Kevin A. McCann's Washington voters' pamphlet statement lists Pierce County District Court Judge 2013-present, (Presiding Judge, 2023-2024); Deputy Prosecuting Attorney 1996-2013, per the Washington voters' pamphlet statement. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
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Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Kevin A. McCann is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Pierce County District Court No. 1, per the Secretary of State's VoteWA general-election candidate list.
Pierce County District Court No. 2
1 candidate
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Claire Sussman
Biography
Claire Sussman's Washington voters' pamphlet statement lists Pierce County District Court Judge for 16 years, per the Washington voters' pamphlet statement. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Claire Sussman is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Pierce County District Court No. 2, per the Secretary of State's VoteWA general-election candidate list.
Pierce County District Court No. 3
1 candidate
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Lizanne Padula
Biography
Lizanne Padula's Washington voters' pamphlet statement lists University Cincinnati College of Law, JD, and University of Denver, BA, per the Washington voters' pamphlet statement.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Lizanne Padula is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Pierce County District Court No. 3, per the Secretary of State's VoteWA general-election candidate list.
Pierce County District Court No. 4
1 candidate
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Neil Horibe
Biography
Neil Horibe currently works as an Industrial Appeals Judge at the Washington State Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals and serves as a Pierce County District Court Judge Pro Tem, per his campaign site. He previously worked as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in the Pierce County Prosecutor's Office for more than a decade and received his law degree from the University of Washington, per his campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Neil Horibe is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Pierce County District Court No. 4, per the Secretary of State's VoteWA general-election candidate list.
Pierce County District Court No. 5
2 candidates
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Joshua C. Harris
Biography
Joshua C. Harris's Washington voters' pamphlet statement lists Attorney; Army Veteran; Business Owner, per the Washington voters' pamphlet statement. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
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Heather M. Barker
Biography
Heather M. Barker's Washington voters' pamphlet statement lists King County District Court Judge Pro Tem; Practicing Attorney, per the Washington voters' pamphlet statement.
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About this race
Joshua C. Harris and Heather M. Barker meet on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Pierce County District Court No. 5, per the Secretary of State's VoteWA general-election candidate list.
Pierce County District Court No. 6
1 candidate
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Karl Williams
Biography
Karl Williams's Washington voters' pamphlet statement lists Pierce County District Court Judge, Position No. 6, per the Washington voters' pamphlet statement. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Karl Williams is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Pierce County District Court No. 6, per the Secretary of State's VoteWA general-election candidate list.
Pierce County District Court No. 8
2 candidates
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Sven Nelson
Biography
Sven Nelson is a candidate for Pierce County District Court, Judge Position No. 8, on the November 3, 2026 ballot. He has served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Pierce County since 1996, including as Team Chief of the Special Assault, Elder Abuse and Property Crimes units, per his campaign site. He has worked as a Judge Pro Tempore in South Sound courts since 2019 and is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, per the same source. He serves as an elected Trustee of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association and previously served as Board President of Rebuilding Hope, Pierce County's sexual assault center, per his campaign site.
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James Armstrong
Biography
James Armstrong is a candidate for Pierce County District Court, Judge Position No. 8, on the November 3, 2026 ballot. He has more than 25 years of legal experience representing injured workers and people seeking Social Security disability benefits, per his campaign site. Armstrong previously served as Presiding Judge of Bremerton Municipal Court and continues to serve as a Judge Pro Tem in Pierce County, Puyallup, Kent and Tukwila courts, per the same source. He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, per his campaign site.
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About this race
Sven Nelson and James Armstrong meet on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Pierce County District Court No. 8, per the Secretary of State's VoteWA general-election candidate list.

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