Battle Ground, Washington sample ballot 2026

A deputy county auditor in the Clark County Auditor's Office who previously served as an assistant state auditor for the Washington State Auditor's Office, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. That entry also lists him as a former reporting and analysis manager in the auditor's office and a financial analyst at Southwest Washington Behavioral Health, and records an MBA from Arizona State University and an accounting degree from Brigham Young University.

A small business owner and licensed real estate broker and appraiser who chaired the Clark County Council from 2019 to 2022 and represented District 4 from 2016 to 2019, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. Before county government she served in the Oregon House from 1995 to 1997 and the Oregon Senate from 1997 to 2001, where she was majority whip, per the same entry, and she has served on the Clark County Planning Commission and Board of Equalization.

Clark County Clerk since he was first elected in 2010, and re-elected in 2014, 2018 and 2022, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. Before taking office he worked in manufacturing, where he developed and implemented lean systems to increase efficiency, per the same entry, and he serves on the Veterans Court board and as treasurer of the Washington State Clerk's Association. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

Founder and owner of Shapiro Mediation LLC, where she handles divorce mediation including financial forensics and asset analysis, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. She holds a juris doctorate from the University of Massachusetts School of Law and has served as a precinct committee officer in Clark County, per the same entry, and pledges monthly open office hours on her campaign site.

A certified general appraiser who has served as Clark County Assessor since 2011 after first winning the office in 2010, per the county's official about the assessor page. Before taking office he was managing partner of American Commercial and Residential Appraisal following a decade in telecommunications, per that same county page, and the Clark County Association of Realtors named him 2020 affiliate of the year, per his voters' pamphlet entry. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

A Clark County real estate investor with more than 20 years buying, remodeling, flipping and evaluating properties across the county, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. That entry lists a 1999 Fort Vancouver High School diploma, a 2018 emergency medical technician certification, and community service coaching Little League baseball and Clark County Youth Football since 2016, and records no prior elected experience. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

A senior deputy prosecuting attorney in the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney's Office since 2012 who handles murder and sexual offense cases and supervises the domestic violence and child abuse units, per her campaign site. That site also lists service as a judge pro tempore in Clark County District Court and on the state bar's rules and procedures committee, and reports she received the Clark County Bar Association's Donald Simpson Award for Professionalism in 2025.

Clark County Treasurer since 2019 and a certified public funds investment manager, per her campaign site and the county treasurer's official page. Before taking office she was tax services manager in the treasurer's office, director of strategic partnerships for Vancouver Public Schools and director of the Fort Vancouver National Trust, per her campaign site, and she holds a master of public administration from Portland State University.

Matthews is a licensed Professional Engineer with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech who has spent 43 years in the electrical utility industry, per his campaign site. He spent 12 years at the Georgia Power Research Center and 31 years at the Bonneville Power Administration across 14 assignments, and has lived in Vancouver, Washington since 1992, per his campaign site.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.