The following local candidates have filed paperwork to run in the 2018 Brown County primary as of Jan. 16:
Brown Circuit judge (six years)
- (D) Kristopher Kritzer
- (R) Tracey Yeager Stogsdill
- (R) Mary Wertz
Brown County prosecutor (four years)
- (R) Ted Adams
Brown County clerk (four years)
- (D) Brenda Woods
- (R) Kathy (Grimes) Smith
Brown County auditor (four years)
- (R) Julia “Julie” B. Reeves
Brown County sheriff (four years)
- (R) Scott Southerland
Brown County coroner (four years)
- (R) Earl R. Piper
Brown County assessor (four years)
- No candidates
Brown County commissioner, District 2 (northwest Brown County) (four years)
- (R) Diana McDonald Biddle
- (R) John Kennard
Brown County council, districts 1, 2, 3 and 4 (four years)
- (R) Darren Byrd (Dist. 2)
- (R) Arthur “Art” Knight (Dist. 4)
Township trustees, all townships (four years)
- (R) Vicki Payne (Van Buren)
- (D) Paul D. Hardin (Washington)
- (R) Brandon Edens Magner (Washington)
Township board members, all townships, three seats (four years)
- (R) Ben Phillips (Van Buren)
Democratic Party precinct officials (four years)
- (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) Stephen W. Gore (Washington 3)
- (D) Curt Mayfield (Washington 4)
Democratic Party state delegates (two years)
- (D) Teri Bleuel
- (D) Kevin G. Fleming
- (D) James Lowell Oliver
- (D) Linda Welty
Republican Party state delegates (two years)
- (R) Mark Bowman
- (R) Robyn Bowman
The deadline for a major-party candidate to file a declaration of candidacy with the county clerk’s office is noon Friday, Feb. 9. The deadline to withdraw candidacy is Monday, Feb. 12.
Primary Election Day is Tuesday, May 8.
The deadline for a resident to register to vote in Brown County in the primary is midnight April 9.
For more information on candidacy or registering to vote, contact the Brown County clerk’s office at 812-988-5510.
