Three seats on the Solano County Board of Supervisors will be up for grabs this election cycle, including one seat with a retiring incumbent. The top two finishers in each race in the March 5 primary will advance to a runoff in the November general election.
Erin Hannigan, who represents District 1, announced last year that she would not run for another term.
Monica Brown, who represents District 2, will be defending her seat for the second time, and Mitch Mashburn, who represents District 5, will try to fend off a challenger for the first time since being elected in 2020.
District 1 race
The race to replace Hannigan in District 1, which includes the northern portion of Vallejo, features two candidates. They are Cassandra James, a housing, social work and crisis intervention specialist, and Michael Wilson, a former Vallejo city councilmember.
James is the current vice chair of the Vallejo Housing and Community Development Commission and the vice president of the Solano-Napa Chapter of Black Women Organized for Political Action. She has the endorsement of the Solano County Democratic Party and the Sierra Club.
Some of James’ top priorities include refocusing the criminal justice system on root causes of crime, investing in affordable housing, and ensuring Vallejo gets its fair share of resources from the county government.
Wilson was endorsed by Hannigan and two other current supervisors, John Vasquez and Mashburn. He was also endorsed by U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena.
Wilson supports revitalizing the county fairgrounds, housing the unhoused, and addressing public safety by maintaining a county partnership with the Vallejo Police Department.
District 2 race
In the District 2 race, Brown will face off against private real estate broker Nora Dizon and leadership entrepreneur Rochelle Sherlock.
The district includes the southern portion of Vallejo and the area east of the city, bordered by the Montezuma Hills.
Brown was a teacher and trustee at Solano Community College before being elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2016. She is running again to support senior issues, mental health and better air quality, according to a Solano County Democratic Central Committee questionnaire.
Dizon supports making the county more competitive in attracting business, championing affordable housing for a wide variety of residents, and addressing a school bus shortage. Dizon pledged to self-fund her campaign and did not seek endorsements, according to her candidate statement and campaign website.
Sherlock was a founding member and first chairperson of the Solano Commission for Women and Girls and was a co-founder and board member of Volunteer Center of Solano County, a community nonprofit.
She supports investing in local jobs through re-training, hiring incentives and education support, as well as investing in neighborhoods to promote public safety, and wildfire prevention. Sherlock was endorsed by state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, and Hannigan, the current supervisor.
District 5 race
And Mashburn, the board’s current chair, is running against Chadwick Ledoux in District 5. The district encompasses most of the eastern part of the county including the Montezuma Hills, up to just south of Dixon.
Mashburn is a former corrections officer and Vacaville city councilmember who was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2020.
He has championed protecting the Delta, improving communication between the county and residents and enforcing a right to farm for family farmers.
I am running for office to stop the Flannery/California Forever organization and their eastern Solano land grab. If they cannot be stopped, my second goal will be to hold them accountable to pay their fair share of infrastructure improvements so that we are not burdened with extra tax liability.
Chadwick Ledoux, district 5 candidate
Ledoux is a 52-year-old electrician who formerly worked for the city and county of San Francisco. His run is motivated by his opposition to a community proposed by the company California Forever that would be built in District 5 east of Travis Air Force Base.
“I am running for office to stop the Flannery/California Forever organization and their eastern Solano land grab. If they cannot be stopped, my second goal will be to hold them accountable to pay their fair share of infrastructure improvements so that we are not burdened with extra tax liability,” Ledoux said in his candidate statement.
He describes himself as pro-law enforcement and pro-education.
The last day to register to vote is Feb. 20.
Early ballot dropboxes opened on Tuesday and in-person early voting starts Feb. 24.