Winter Park, Florida sample ballot 2026

Tech entrepreneur from Winter Park; CEO of Body1 with 30+ years of executive leadership, holding a master's in city and regional planning and a Harvard MBA, per The Apopka Chief candidate Q&A.

Tiffany Moore Russell is the sitting Orange County Clerk of the Circuit Court, resigning effective Aug. 31, 2026 to run for mayor; cites 20+ years of public service including County Commissioner and Clerk roles, per West Orlando News and The Apopka Chief Q&A.

Attorney and Orange County Clerk of Courts general counsel, per Winter Garden Vox; FAMU Law graduate (2005) who worked as an access-to-justice attorney at Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida and managed the clerk's Self Help and Family Services divisions, per the campaign site.

Orlando realtor running with no party affiliation, per Winter Garden Vox; confirmed as a qualified clerk candidate per West Orlando News. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.

Farrant is the sitting Orange County School Board member for District 3 and is running for the countywide chair seat; she describes four years on the board spent on literacy instruction, including sending District 3 educators to Science of Reading training, per her campaign site. Not the incumbent chair (chair Teresa Jacobs is outgoing).

Private practice attorney in Orlando with 23+ years of experience, primarily as a community association/real estate attorney; also a Florida Supreme Court-certified circuit civil mediator and Value Adjustment Board special magistrate, per electasimaazam4judge.vote; previously ran for Orlando City Council, per a Florida Politics headline.

Litigator with 17 years of legal experience across corporations, multiple judicial circuits, State Attorney offices, and the Public Defender's office, handling over 4,000 cases; former president of the Orange County Bar Foundation and Paul C. Perkins Bar Association, per kafikennedyforjudge.com; 40+ jury trials across criminal, civil, and family law, per the League of Women Voters of Orange County Bench Press recap.

Cherish Adams is the sitting Orange County Court judge (Group 17); previously an Orange County prosecutor for roughly a decade handling violent crimes, sexual offenses, and homicides, per keepjudgeadams.vote and the League of Women Voters of Orange County Bench Press recap.

Assistant Public Defender for approximately 27-28 years, handling thousands of cases throughout Central Florida; Stetson Law graduate, per the campaign site and the League of Women Voters of Orange County Bench Press recap.

Orlando attorney with undergraduate and law degrees from Florida State University who has worked at several large law firms, per Winter Garden Vox; practice background includes insurance defense litigation, Greenberg Traurig's litigation department, county court work, and collections law, per the League of Women Voters of Orange County Bench Press recap. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

Mark S. Miller is the sitting Orange County Court judge for Group 21, appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2024; he WITHDREW from the 2026 race on July 12, 2026, the same day he began a new position as a federal immigration judge in Orlando, per Winter Garden Vox. Prior background includes military veteran, former teacher, assistant state attorney, and Morgan & Morgan attorney, per League of Women Voters of Orange County Bench Press recap.

Lopez Marantes is an attorney and executive director and co-founder of the Orlando Center for Justice, and an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida, per the campaign site. She spent a decade in the advertising industry as an interactive broadcast producer before earning her law degree at Florida A&M University's law school, per the campaign site. She is a graduate of Orange County Public Schools and has volunteered as a Guardian ad Litem advocating for children's well-being, per the campaign site.

Shepard is a firefighter and paramedic with more than 14 years of public safety service who was born and raised in northwest Ohio before moving to the area in 2012, per the campaign site. He has trained paramedics and taught CPR over the course of his career, per the campaign site.

Lugo is a mental health professional with more than a decade of experience serving children, families and individuals in Orange County, per the campaign site. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in healthcare administration, per the campaign site. Born in Chicago and raised in Puerto Rico, she says her background gives her insight into the challenges facing students, parents and educators, per the campaign site.

Describes herself as 'a local Afro-Latina mom fighting for school choice, responsible growth, and teacher support,' per votegloriareina.com; a specific professional occupation was not stated in fetched sources.

Teacher, per her candidate statement on the Orange County SOE campaign-finance portal (VoterFocus): 'as a teacher, we know a teacher's working conditions are a child's learning conditions.' No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.

Peña is a professional educator with more than 20 years of experience at the K-12 and college levels and the mother of a first-grade Orange County Public Schools student, per her campaign site.

Quinnie Perez grew up in Ocala surrounded by agriculture and family farming traditions and currently works alongside agricultural laborers in medical cannabis cultivation in Central Florida, per her campaign site. She previously served as a Regional Organizing Director for NextGen America, per her campaign site. Quinnie Perez appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Orange Soil and Water Conservation District 1, per the Supervisor of Elections' official qualified-candidate list.

Vicente Rafael Perez Carreno serves as Board Treasurer and Associate Supervisor of the Orange Soil and Water Conservation District, per his campaign site. He is trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese with a background in law, governance and environmental education, per his campaign site. Vicente Rafael Perez Carreno appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Orange Soil and Water Conservation District 1, per the Supervisor of Elections' official qualified-candidate list.

Doug Sahr is a West Orange native who grew up on seven acres raising animals and gardening, per his campaign site. He is a former member and ambassador of the West Orange Chamber of Commerce and has served on the board of Bethany Christian Services, volunteering with Matthew's Hope Ministries, Eight Waves and Second Harvest Food Bank.

Angie Nixon is a Florida state representative from Jacksonville, a union organizer and a mother, per the campaign site. She is executive director of Florida for All, a statewide coalition, and runs a bookstore and community hub in Jacksonville, per the campaign site. The campaign site says she expanded child care in the State House and led the fight against the state's new voting maps, per the campaign site.

Donalds is a member of Congress representing Florida's 19th District since January 2021, per the chamber's membership roster. Before Congress, he worked in the finance, insurance and banking industries in Southwest Florida and served in the Florida House of Representatives, where he chaired the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee and led the effort to enact Hope Scholarships for school choice, per the campaign site. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Florida State University in 2002, per the campaign site.

• Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the November 2025 funding agreement that ended the government shutdown, which passed the House 222-209 in November 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the September 2025 stopgap funding bill, which passed the House 217-212 in September 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the March 2025 full-year stopgap funding bill, which passed the House 217-213 in March 2025. Supported

David Jolly is the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, a former Republican congressman from the Tampa Bay area who left the GOP and joined the Democratic Party in 2025. His campaign emphasizes affordability, property insurance reform, public schools, and ending one-party control of Tallahassee.

Jose Javier Rodriguez is an attorney, a former Florida state representative and state senator from Miami, and a former U.S. assistant secretary of labor, per the campaign site. His campaign says he would focus the office on crime, costs and corruption and serve as an independent-minded enforcer of the law, per the campaign site.

Annette Taddeo is a Florida state senator, the first Latina Democrat elected to the Florida State Senate, first elected in a 2017 special election, per the campaign site.

Simpson is a fifth-generation Floridian and lifelong farmer who operates a large-scale egg-laying operation supplying Florida supermarkets, per the campaign site. He currently serves as Florida's Agriculture Commissioner and previously served in the state Senate, per the campaign site.

Joey Mendoza Atkins is the Democratic nominee for Florida agriculture commissioner. A lifelong Floridian, he earned a political science degree cum laude and a law degree, worked as a family-law attorney, and represented athletes as a Miami-area sports agent. His platform focuses on grocery costs, local farmers, and affordability.