ZIP 84081 voter guide

Background

Lifelong West Jordan resident and father of five. Served 12 years on the West Jordan City Council, including as council chair; works as a business analyst/director.

Stated priorities

• Local control, balanced budgets, lower taxes, and limiting state action to problems that cannot be solved locally.
• Individual liberty, simpler regulation, and scrutiny of costs borne by fixed-income residents.

Background

Journeyman electrician for 15 years and elected treasurer of IBEW Local 354. Previously ran for West Jordan City Council. Endorsed by Salt Lake County's Forward Party organization while remaining unaffiliated on the ballot.

Stated priorities

• Affordability and prevailing-wage transparency; says his family left West Jordan in 2016 because of housing costs.
• Great Salt Lake protection, enforceable air/water standards, and expert-led review of major projects.
• Campaign-finance and government accountability; opposes both 2026 constitutional amendments.

Background

President of the Granite School District board. Before her 2019 election, taught music and orchestra for 25 years in Granite and Jordan school districts.

Public positions

• More local control and educator expertise in solving attendance, AI, enrollment, proficiency, and behavior problems.
• Supports enforcing the sensitive-materials law while preserving broad age-appropriate literature.
• Supports family choice only with equivalent fiscal and academic accountability for recipients of public money; otherwise funds should remain public.
• Opposes mandatory third-grade retention; supports bell-to-bell cellphone bans and keeping immigration enforcement out of schools absent an imminent threat.

Background

Former multilingual-learner support professional in Granite and other school districts; 14 years with the Utah Department of Workforce Services. Raised on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley.

Public positions

• Increase staffing/resources and reduce educator shortages and workloads.
• Opposes statewide book removals; emphasizes intellectual freedom, parent partnership, and professional trust.
• Opposes Utah Fits All vouchers, arguing they divert $95 million from public schools without equivalent requirements.
• Opposes mandatory third-grade retention; supports bell-to-bell cellphone bans and keeping immigration enforcement out of schools.

Experience: Certified Internal Auditor; bachelor's and master's in accounting from the University of Utah. More than a decade in private-sector compliance and audit roles; currently a director at Baker Tilly US. Board member at Clean Slate Utah.

Pitch: Efficiency, taxpayer value, transparent facts, and accountability. Her public materials give broad goals but few named audit targets or proposed reporting changes.

Experience: Auditor since 2022; CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified Internal Auditor. Former Treasury Inspector General, Army internal-review director, and federal contract auditor.

Record/pitch: Says the office earned its first passing external peer review in 2024 and launched a public recommendation tracker. Seeks stronger auditor independence, a functioning council audit committee, better technology, and expanded professional staffing.

Experience: Clerk since 2022; chief deputy clerk from 2015–2022 and former deputy district attorney. J.D.; member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Standards Board.

Record/pitch: Defends vote-by-mail as safe, effective, and accessible. Her office received federal “Clearie” awards for election innovation, poll-worker programs, and accessible voter outreach. No opponent is listed.

Available record: Officially certified for the ballot, but no campaign website and little substantive public material were located. The local profile reported no additional response or policy details.

Background: Previously sought the Republican nomination for Utah's 4th Congressional District in 2020 and the 2nd District special election in 2023.

Pitch: “Taxpayer respect,” local business, safer public spaces, honest budgeting, clean leadership, and responsive county government. Her questionnaire did not provide detailed proposals beyond those themes.

Experience: Two terms on Sandy City Council; former firefighter/paramedic; operations director for virtual care at University of Utah Health. MPA from the University of Utah.

Record/pitch: Cites Sandy's anti-idling ordinance, recreation-center funding, employee pay/process reforms, and founding a first-responder suicide-awareness coalition. Supports core services, affordable housing incentives, air/water work, and public-safety resources while saying tax increases deserve close scrutiny.

Experience: District attorney since 2010; more than 30 years as a public prosecutor, including Salt Lake City chief prosecutor. J.D. with environmental and natural-resources specialization.

Record/pitch: Cites creation of mental-health and veterans courts, pre-filing diversion, victim-support services, a public charging dashboard, and police-use-of-force reform proposals. Says diversion succeeds above 92%. On development, favors rigorous water/power/noise review and enforceable public commitments.

Experience: Former Salt Lake County deputy district attorney and Arizona public defender; current corporate counsel/cybersecurity director. Army veteran with two Iraq deployments and a Bronze Star; J.D., executive MBA, and cybersecurity credentials.

Pitch: Written charging and plea standards, documented decisions, public performance metrics, expanded drug courts, and priority for shootings, domestic-violence firearm cases, and repeat violent offenders. Proposes two-term limit for himself.

Experience: More than 23 years in law enforcement, including the Unified Police Department; retired Army aviation colonel/Utah National Guard officer.

Pitch: Jail expansion and stricter operational accountability, consistent enforcement, stronger consequences for repeat offenders, support for deputies, government efficiency, and “constitutional conservative” leadership.

Experience: Sheriff since 2017 and Utah's first elected female sheriff. Joined the department in 1993; former deputy chief and Riverton precinct chief. Oversees roughly 1,100 employees and the state's largest jail/court-security operation.

Record/pitch: Jail-capacity expansion with no overcrowding releases; medication-assisted addiction treatment, mental-health treatment, supervised release, crisis-response training, victim services, gang prevention/intervention, and employee retention.