Columbia voters elect Millikin superintendent
Columbia voters elect Millikin superintendent
Mike Millikin unseated incumbent Grady D. "Sam" Markham for the office of Superintendent of Schools with 52 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election. Millikin has 28 years of educational
experience and has served as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, adult educator, district level director and assistant superintendent of schools.
He received 7,456 votes to Markham’s 4,339 or 31 percent. The third candidate, Cesta Newman gathered 17 percent and 2,424.
Sheriff Bill Gootee faced three challengers: Mark Hunter, Wayne Keen and Keith Slanker. He received 43 percent or 6,112 votes. Hunter got 4,518 (31.6%); Keen 2,708 (18.9%); and Slanker 933 (6.53%). Sheriff Gootee got the most votes, although with only 43 percent of the votes in the nonpartisan race, he'll face a runoff with Mark Hunter in November.
The winner will meet GOP challenger David Barnes. Barnes garnered 63 percent with 1,192 votes to Mike Juliano’s 699 votes (37%).
Other results:
District 4 School Board
Keith Hudson 1,547 (62.9%)
Jeff Thomas 911 (37.0%)
District 1 County Commission
Willie B. Allen 882 (36.9%)
Ronald Williams 1,508 (63.0%)
District 3 County Commission
Dwayne Aldridge 219 (6.08%)
Jody DuPree 773 (21.4%)
Mike Gordon 664 (18.4%)
Zimmie C. Petty 528 (14.6%)
John Pierce 624 (17.3%)
David N. Rountree 791 (21.9%)
District 5 County Commission
Brandon M. Beil 366 (11.2%)
Keith Blackie 189 (5.83%)
Scarlet Parnell Fris 890 (27.4%)
Jeffrey L. Hill 147 (4.53%)
Nathan Morgan 399 (12.3%)
Garry Wayne Ward Sr. 868 (26.7%)
George Wehrli 380 (11.7%)
Lake City voters had three races to decide.
Mayor
James H. Montgomery 1,104 (44.3%)
Stephen M. Witt 1,388 (55.6%)
City Council District 12
Jake Hill Jr. 249 (35.6%)
Harold D. Perry 141 (20.2%)
Greg Ridilla 189 (27.0%)
Kurt Ruppert Sr. 119 (17.0%)
City Council District 13
Richard Hale 378 (44.0%)
Melinda H. Moses 480 (55.9%)
