Brown County residents have until noon Friday, Feb. 9 to file paperwork to become major-party candidates in the May primary election.
The following local candidates have officially declared their candidacy for the 2018 Brown County primary as of Feb. 2:
Brown Circuit judge
(D) Kristopher Kritzer
(R) Jacob Moore
(R) Tracey Yeager Stogsdill
(R) Mary Wertz
Brown County prosecutor
(R) Ted Adams
Brown County clerk
(D) Brenda Woods
(R) Deb Noe
(R) Kathy (Grimes) Smith
Brown County auditor
(R) Julia “Julie” B. Reeves
Brown County sheriff
(R) Scott Southerland
Brown County coroner
(R) Earl R. Piper
Brown County assessor
(R) Mari H. Miller
Brown County commissioner, District 2 (northwest Brown County)
(R) Diana McDonald Biddle
(R) John Kennard
Brown County council, districts 1, 2, 3 and 4
(D) Debra Guffey (Dist. 1)
(R) Bill Hamilton (Dist. 1)
(R) Darren Byrd (Dist. 2)
(D) Roger D. Kelso (Dist. 3)
(R) Arthur “Art” Knight (Dist. 4)
Township trustees, all townships
(R) Phil Stephens (Hamblen)
(R) Sandra K. Higgins (Jackson)
(R) Vicki Payne (Van Buren)
(D) Paul D. Hardin (Washington)
(R) Brandon Edens Magner (Washington)
Township board members, all townships, three seats
(R) Tina McCormack (Hamblen)
(R) Freida Milnes (Hamblen)
(R) Lanny Rossman (Hamblen)
(R) Larry L. Gardner (Jackson)
(R) James E. Kakavecos Jr. (Jackson)
(R) Ben Phillips (Van Buren)
Democratic Party precinct officials
(D) M.K. Watkins (Hamblen 1)
(D) James Lowell Oliver (Hamblen 2)
(D) Kathy Smith-Andrew (Hamblen 3)
(D) Lora Lewis Rudd (Jackson 1)
(D) Linda Welty (Jackson 2)
(D) Rick Bond (Jackson 3)
(D) Kevin G. Fleming (Van Buren)
(D) Herbert Brown (Washington 1)
(D) Stephen W. Gore (Washington 3)
(D) Curt Mayfield (Washington 4)
Democratic Party state delegates
(D) Teri Bleuel
(D) Herbert Brown
(D) Nancy K. Brown
(D) Kevin G. Fleming
(D) Larry “Levi” Voils III
(D) James Lowell Oliver
(D) M.K. Watkins
(D) Linda Welty
Republican Party state delegates
(R) Mark Bowman
(R) Robyn Bowman
(R) Ben Phillips
(R) Phil Stephens
All offices listed except circuit court judge (six years) carry four-year terms.
Candidates for State Rep. Dist. 65, U.S. Rep. Dist. 9 and U.S. Senator also will be on local ballots.
More offices will be on the general election ballot in November:
Nashville Town Council District 1 and two at-large members currently (“Buzz” King, Arthur Omberg and David Rudd)
Brown County Schools Board of Trustees members from districts 1, 2 and 3 currently (Carol Bowden, Judy Hardwick and Steve Miller Jr.)
School board and town council seats are nonpartisan.
Nashville residents seeking town council seats have between now and July 2 to file paperwork with the Brown County clerk. At-large candidates can live anywhere in town limits; District 1 candidates have to live on the far west side of downtown, on the west side of State Road 135 North up to Ridgeway, or in Pine Tree Hills or other points north. See a map of districts below.
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Prospective school board members can file their paperwork between July 25 and Aug. 24. District 1 is Hamblen Township; District 2 is Jackson Township and the Washington 4 precinct in the Belmont and Yellowwood areas; and District 3 is the rest of Washington Township and Van Buren Township.
For more information on candidacy or registering to vote, contact the Brown County clerk’s office at 812-988-5510.
