The filing deadline for county offices officially passed at 5 p.m. on Friday, and a total of five Republican candidates — including all three incumbents — have filed to run for seats on the Marshall County Board of Supervisors along with one Democrat.

According to information provided by the Marshall County Auditor/Recorder’s Office, incumbents Jarret Heil and Carol Hibbs, who were first elected in 2022, have both filed to seek a second term, and Christian Goodman, who was appointed to fill the wvacancy left by his father Kevin after his passing, plans to run to serve out the remainder of that term, which runs through the end of 2028. Kevin Goodman was first elected in 2024.

A pair of challengers have also filed the necessary paperwork to run on the GOP side — Bill Schendel, the owner of Schendel Pest Control who narrowly lost the 2024 primary to Kevin Goodman, and Tony Reed, the owner of All-American Property Management and former director of the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center (CIJDC) who unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Iowa House in 2020. Additionally, Democrat DeMorris Dean, who retired from the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office after serving as the first Black deputy in county history, has also filed to run for a seat.

Goodman is actually running unopposed because his race is to fill the vacancy left by his father, so Heil, Hibbs, Reed and Schendel will be running for two Republican nominations, and Dean will in all likelihood win the Democratic nomination unopposed. The two Republicans and the Democratic nominee will then compete for two seats in the November general election.

Supervisors serve four-year terms, and they are all elected on an at-large basis with no supervisor districts. In other county races, Treasurer Deann Tomlinson and County Attorney Jordan Gaffney, both Republicans, are running unopposed for another term.

State offices

The deadline to file for state offices was actually last Friday, March 13, and Marshall County’s two current state representatives — David Blom (R-Marshalltown) in District 52 and Brett Barker (R-Nevada) in District 51 — have filed the necessary paperwork to seek a second two-year term in office.

Blom is being challenged by Democrat Mike Tupper, the former Marshalltown police chief, and Barker has a GOP primary challenger in Shane Heintz, a Nevada businessman. Democrat Teresa Perin of Rhodes, who serves as an English teacher at Marshalltown High School, has also filed to run for the seat. District 52 covers the city of Marshalltown and the southeast corner of the county, while District 51 includes most of western and northern Marshall County along with most of Story County outside of Ames.

In neighboring Tama County, longtime Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) is seeking another term in District 53, and as it currently stands, his race will be uncontested after the news that Democrat Berleen Wobeter of rural Toledo, who had initially filed the necessary paperwork, has since withdrawn from the race. District 53 covers roughly ¾ of Tama County excluding the northeast quadrant and also includes a portion of Poweshiek County.

In House District 54, which covers all of Grundy and Hardin counties and a small portion of Black Hawk County, incumbent Republican Joshua Meggers, a state trooper from Grundy Center, will seek another term in office, and he is being challenged by Democrat Leila Staton of Reinbeck, a child sexual assault advocate, womens’ health advocate, and community organizer.