The deadline for Monroe County Board of Education Aug. 5 contests and the state party primaries in August is fast approaching.
Candidates for School Board and state primaries have until noon on April 1 to qualify for the Aug. 5 election by turning in a petition with the signature of 25 registered voters to the Monroe County Election Commission.

For the 1st District School Board, which has two seats up for grabs, incumbent Dewitt Upton has picked up and turned back in a qualifying petition. Incumbent Larry Stein has picked up a petition, but has not turned it back in as of Monday morning.
In the 2nd District, two seats are up and incumbents Dean Williams and Janet Martin have both picked up and turned back in qualifying petitions.

Robert Starcher and Kimberly Griffin have picked up and turned back in petitions.
Dave Evans and Tom Rauschert have picked up petitions, but have yet to turn them back in.
For the 3rd District's one seat on the ballot, incumbent Lisa Lynn McLemore has picked up and turned back in a petition as has Jo Cagle. Phillip Johnson has picked up a petition, but has not turned it back in.

For the Tennessee House of Representatives, incumbent Jimmy Matlock, R-Lenoir City, has turned in his petition to seek re-election for the 21st House Seat and Republican John Forgety from McMinn County has turned back in a petition to run for the 23rd House seat to be vacated by incumbent Mike Bell, who is running for a state Senate seat in the Ninth District.

No candidates so far have qualified to face Matlock or Forgety in the Republican primary or on the Democrat side to face them in November.
Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, is Monroe County's incumbent state senator and he has picked up a petition, but has not turned it back in.

Jim Headings has picked up a petition to run as an independent for the 2nd District U.S. Congress seat held by incumbent Republican John Duncan Jr.

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