NIC Board Trustee, Position B
Election Results
| Candidate | Votes | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Christie Wood (N) | 19,870 | 59.30% |
| Robert G. Ketchum (N) | 13,637 | 40.70% |
* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.
The Candidates
Christie Wood
- Party:
- Neither
- Age:
- 63
- City:
- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Education: Graduated from Lakeland High School in 1979 and attended North Idaho College. Earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and communication from Lewis-Clark State College in 2004.
Work experience: Retired from the Coeur d’Alene Police Department in 2015 after 26 years of service, the last 15 as the department spokeswoman. Served in the U.S. Air Force for three years.
Political experience: Serves as the board chairwoman of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees and the president of the Kootenai County Human Rights Task Force. She is in her second term as a city parks and recreation commissioner and previously served on the Coeur d’Alene School District board of trustees for eight years.
Family: Married. Has one son.
Complete Coverage
Huckleberries: Supremacists a reminder of task force’s need
White supremacists made pests of themselves in Coeur d’Alene during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. First, they picketed two Mexican food stands in Coeur d’Alene – Chiludo’s Mexican Food (3000 Government Way) and Taco Works (Fifth and Appleway). Then, the neo-nutsies followed up with a protest near the Human Rights Education Institute on Monday. Sgt. Christie Wood, the Coeur d’Alene police spokeswoman and VP of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, was in a happy place until she saw the racists at Northwest Boulevard and Mullan (near City Park).
Last Democratic official in Kootenai County loses job
Kootenai County, already among the most conservative regions of the country, is about to lose its sole surviving Democratic elected county official. Longtime Kootenai County Clerk Dan English was defeated 60 percent to 40 percent by Cliff Hayes, the former Post Falls police chief. English had been Kootenai County’s clerk for 15 years.