Justin Posey was elected in a landslide to fill the vacant Brownwood ISD Board of Trustees Place 7 position, the lone local race on the ballot in Tuesday’s general election.
Posey received 53.97% of the early vote (408 votes) to jump out to a sizable lead, and finished with 597 votes, or 53.11% percent of the ballots cast.
“I did not expect this, I’m very surprised,” Posey said. “I just really want to thank all the citizens of the Brownwood community, my family and everyone for their support in this election. I’m humbled that everybody put their faith and trust in me and I’m excited to get to work with other board members to keep Brownwood pride strong in the coming years.”
Regarding receiving more than half the vote in a five-person race, Posey said, “I’m shocked really. I guess I have a lot more friends than I realized I did.”
No other candidate received a quarter of the votes, as Francie Clark was the closest at 274 votes, or 24.38%. Also running were Chelsey Flippin (95 votes, 8.45%), Aristeo (A.R.) Cardenas (87 votes, 7.74%), and Neil Larremore (71 votes, 6.32%).
Posey, a 1999 graduate of Brownwood High School, and his wife, Krissy, have two children – daughter, Kori. who graduated from Brownwood High in 2018; and son, Logan, who is currently a junior. Posey’s mother, step-mother, and grandmother all taught at BISD.
As for his goals as a member of the board, Posey said, “The main thing I ran on was to keep Christian, family values in our schools. I wanted to better prepare the schools, every campus for any kind of emergency and train the staff with emergency services to prepare for bad days. That’s my main objective. A lot of the concerns I’ve heard from parents, teachers and even students was discipline, and I’d like to try to address that. I don’t know what all I’ll be able to accomplish, it’s just going to take time and we’ll see what we can do. We would like to form some committees of parents and staff together to try and come up with good ideas on how to fix the issues.”
Posey – who serves as a lieutenant with the Brownwood Fire Department – is following in the footsteps of Tim Jacobs, who resigned from Place 7 in December 2021.
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FINAL VOTING TOTALS for Brownwood ISD Board of Trustees Place 7
Justin Posey – 597 votes – 53.11%
Francie Clark – 274 votes – 24.38%
Chelsey Flippin – 95 votes – 8.45%
Aristeo (A.R.) Cardenas – 87 votes – 7.74%
Neil Larremore – 71 votes – 6.32%
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BROWN COUNTY FINAL VOTING TOTALS FOR STATE RACES
Governor
Greg Abbott ( R ) – 10,850 votes – 88.36%
Beto O’Rourke (D) – 1,306 votes – 10.64%
Mark Tippetts (L) – 93 votes – 0.76%
Delilah Barrios (G) – 31 votes – 0.25%
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Lieutenant Governor
Dan Patrick ( R ) – 10,625 votes – 86.98%
Mike Collier (D) – 1,355 votes – 11.09%
Shanna Steele (L) – 236 votes – 1.93%
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Attorney General
Ken Paxton ( R ) – 10,601 – 86.90%
Rochelle Mercedes Garza (D) – 1,370 votes – 11.23%
Mark Ash (L) – 228 votes – 1.87%
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Comptroller of Public Accounts
Glenn Hegar ( R ) – 10,771 votes – 88.5%
Janet T. Dudding (D) – 1,230 votes – 10.11%
V. Alonzo Echevarria-Garza (L) – 170 votes – 1.4%
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Commissioner of the General Land Office
Dawn Buckingham ( R ) – 10,803 votes – 88.84%
Jay Kleberg (D) – 1,261 votes – 10.37%
Alfred Molison, Jr. (G) – 96 votes – 0.79%
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Commissioner of Agriculture
Sid Miller ( R ) – 10,703 votes – 87.87%
Susan Hays (D) – 1,477 votes – 12.13%
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Railroad Commissioner
Wayne Christian ( R ) – 10,680 votes – 87.89%
Luke Warford (D) – 1,224 votes – 10.07%
Jaime Andres Diez (L) – 186 votes – 1.53%
Hunter Wayne Crow (G) – 62 votes – 0.51%
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Supreme Court Justice, Place 3
Debra Lehrmann ( R ) – 10,661 votes – 87.92%
Erin A. Nowell (D) – 1,283 votes – 10.58%
Thomas Edward Oxford (L) – 182 votes – 1.5%
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Supreme Court Justice, Place 5
Rebeca Huddle ( R ) – 10,759 votes – 88.9%
Amanda Reichek (D) – 1,343 votes – 11.1%
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Supreme Court Justice, Place 9
Evan Young ( R ) – 10,722 votes – 88.66%
Julia Maldonado (D) – 1,372 votes – 11.34%
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Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 5
Scott Walker ( R ) – 10,768 votes – 88.9%
Dana Huffman (D) – 1,344 votes – 11.1%
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Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 6
Jesse F. McClure III ( R ) – 10,746 votes – 88.93%
Robert Johnson (D) – 1,377 votes – 11.07%