Paulsen, Franks, Swanson and Flynn Win Unopposed
 | Author:
Nancy Marks
Nancy Marks: MT43 News Secretary and News Editor |
Four Broadwater County officers, including County Attorney Cory Swanson, were returned to their courthouse positions without opposition in Tuesday’s general election.
The other three winning a free ride through the election were Clerk and Recorder-Election Administrator Angie Paulsen, Treasurer-Superintendent of Schools Melissa Franks, and Justice of the Peace Kirk Flynn.
Swanson was seeking his third term as county attorney, first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. A lieutenant colonel in the Montana Army National Guard, he was deployed early this year with a military unit in the Central Command area of operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. He has since returned to the United States but is not yet back in his county office, an employee said this week. In his absence, the office was filled by the appointment of Jania Hatfield, a former public defender.
Paulsen and Franks assumed their positions on January 3, appointed by the Board of County Commissioners following the retirement of Doug Ellis who had held both posts. When he retired the commissioners split the job into two offices.
Before her appointment, Paulsen was on the executive staff of Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen in Helena. Franks had served under Ellis as chief deputy county treasurer.
First Image: Angie Paulsen
Second Image: Cory Swanson
Third Image: Melissa Franks
Fourth Image: Kirk Flynn
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