Candidates in 2011 elections in Spokane area

Candidates who have filed for offices in Spokane County through Thursday:

STATE SENATE

Legislative District 4

• Mike Padden, Republican, former Spokane County District Court judge, former state representative

• Jeff Baxter, Republican, incumbent

SPOKANE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT

Position 2

James Triplet, incumbent

SPOKANE

Mayor

• Mary Verner, incumbent

• Mike Noder, co-owner of MoMike Inc., a demolition company

• Barbara Lampert, former nurse’s assistant, frequent candidate for office

• David Condon, former district director for U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

• Robert Kroboth, former debt collector

City Council president

• Ben Stuckart, executive director of Communities in Schools

• Steve Corker, Spokane City councilman

• Dennis Hession, former Spokane mayor

• Victor Noder, part-time home remodeling contract

City Council, northeast district

• John Waite, owner of Merlyn’s, a comic book and sci-fi store in downtown Spokane

• Gary Pollard, chairman of Riverside Neighborhood Council

• Mike Fagan, co-director of Voters Want More Choices

• Luke Tolley, chairman of Hillyard neighborhood Council

• Donna McKereghan, former chairwoman of Logan Neighborhood Council

City Council, south district

• Mike Allen, former city councilman

• Richard Rush, incumbent

City Council, northwest district

• Karen Kearney, chairwoman of Balboa South Indian Trail Neighborhood Council

• Steve Salvatori, Spokane Entrepreneurial Center owner

SPOKANE VALLEY

City Council, position 2

• Dean Grafos, incumbent

• John Carroll, Spokane Valley Planning Commission chairman

City Council, position 3

• Arne Woodard, incumbent

• DeeDee Loberg, member of the Washington State PTA Board of Directors

City Council, position 5

• Chuck Hafner, incumbent

City Council, position 6

• Ben Wick, information technology system administrator at Goodrich Corp.

• John Baldwin, former program director of Spokane County Sheriff’s Office’s Citizens Emergency Response Team

• Lewis Higgins, retired executive director of the International Association of Mine Safety Professionals

• Marilyn Cline

SPOKANE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

School Board, position 5

• Paul E. Lecoq, electrical engineering adjunct faculty member at Gonzaga University. Former Davenport city councilman

• Rod Roduner, former worker in purchasing office at The Spokesman-Review

• Deana Brower, chairwoman of Citizens for Spokane Schools, former teacher in Natomas Unified School District, which is near Sacramento, Calif.

• Bob Griffing, auxiliary clergyman at Fairchild Air Force Base

• Shawn Siggson, employee at Travis Pattern and Foundry

• Larry Vandervert, former member of Spokane School Board