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2 candidates are tracked for Garland County Judge on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Bo Robertson and Cortney Warwick McKee. Candidate information follows official Garland County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
Open seat: incumbent County Judge Darryl Mahoney did not file for reelection. Bo Robertson was unopposed in the Republican primary; he faces independent Cortney Warwick McKee in November, per the certified candidate filing list and the Garland County Election Commission's unofficial primary results.
Bo Robertson is director of the Garland County Department of Emergency Management and the county's fire services coordinator, posts he has held for 12 years, per the Hot Springs Sentinel Record. He holds a gubernatorial appointment to the Arkansas 911 Board and has led the county's response to events including the Majestic Hotel fire, the 2015 and 2025 floods, the Lake Hamilton tornado, and the COVID-19 pandemic, per the same source. He previously served as exercise section chief for the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management, developing and testing emergency plans for all 75 counties, per the Sentinel Record. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 9, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Bo Robertson.
Cortney Warwick McKee holds a master's degree in public administration, with training in budgeting, human resource management, cooperative governance, and policy analysis, per the Hot Springs Sentinel Record. She has managed three 24-hour Waffle House locations as a district manager, per the same source, and is running as an independent, saying she wants to bring practical leadership and transparent budgeting to the county judge's office. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 9, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Cortney Warwick McKee.
