Jude Anthony
Jude Anthony is running for election to the King County Council to represent District 9 in Washington. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025. The primary for this office on August 5, 2025, was canceled.
Anthony completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jude Anthony was born in Miami Beach, Florida. Anthony's career experience includes working as a software engineer, software developer manager, and technical trainer. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida in 1992.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Municipal elections in King County, Washington (2025)
General election
General election for King County Council District 9
Incumbent Reagan Dunn and Jude Anthony are running in the general election for King County Council District 9 on November 4, 2025.
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 | Jude Anthony (Nonpartisan)  | |
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Nonpartisan primary election
The primary election was canceled. Incumbent Reagan Dunn and Jude Anthony advanced from the primary for King County Council District 9.
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jude Anthony completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Anthony's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I've worked with and taught soldiers and civilians, kids and adults, wealthy people and poor, cis folks and trans, PhDs and high school dropouts, people of every race, religion, and background. I've learned that punishment only instills fear, while understanding and support promote trust and self-confidence. I've learned that my decisions work out best when I seek out and listen to input from many viewpoints.
Above all, I've learned that people succeed when they are secure in their food, housing, healthcare, and community. I decided to run when I saw that the King County Council seat was going unopposed. I couldn't let 20 years of opposition to policies that support our county's residents continue without offering an alternative.- TAKING CARE OF NEIGHBORS: Everyone should have food, housing, healthcare, and community that respects their human rights. This shouldn't even need to be a goal: it's an incredibly low bar to say that people's basic needs should be met, and yet we still have food deserts, delayed health care, and homelessness. Having a community step in to help neighbors in need is the basis of civilized society, so King County should spend its resources meeting the basic needs of the residents. My experience training Amazon's diverse mix of employees showed that people succeed when those basic needs are met. Helping our neighbors succeed helps our community succeed.
- CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Democracy works best when all the people participate. My campaign gives more people a voice by identifying groups that don't normally have the resources to influence a politician, volunteering with organizations that serve them, and meeting and listening to the concerns both the volunteers and the people they're serving. If elected, I intend to continue proactively including people by attending meetings remotely from the communities that are affected by Council decisions.
- COMMUNITY HEALTH: While in Florida, I saw how policies that focused on punishment and enforcement escalated fear, isolation, and violence. Those policies never worked because crime isn't caused by immorality or by a lack of arrests; it's caused by powerlessness and unmet needs. We've seen crime rates rise along with the prices of food and housing, and 20 years of increasing police funding hasn't made a difference. I support policies that meet basic needs, implement restorative community justice, and fund proven crime-prevention policies like unarmed crisis response teams, because prosperous, connected people are peaceful, law-abiding people.
I enjoy science fiction and fantasy, in books, animation, television, and movies. Animal Farm describes the deterioration of a government that should look familiar to people today. The Dragon Prince says a lot about governance, empathy, and xenophobia. Star Trek provides an aspiration for our civilization.
Resilience to continually re-examining their decisions and biases.
The first historical event I was truly aware of was the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was excited to see separated friends and family re-unite, and I looked forward to seeing how Germany would reintegrate.
The job that started my career was porting a simulation from an obsolete 24-bit custom computer to a new Unix-based 32-bit computer. From there, I developed software for another 25 years or so.
I'm going to go for the entire Tortall series by Tamora Pierce, starting with Alanna. The book inverts the "twin swap" trope and follows the sister through training as a knight with an engrossing, unflinching realism, paired with intuitive and integrated fantastical elements. The series brings in many characters from a wide variety of backgrounds, inviting the reader to experience many points of view, many struggles, and many triumphs.
The biologist says, "When God created man from clay, that was a great feat of biology. Clearly, God is a biologist."
The physicist says, "Sure, but even before that, God created the entire universe out of nothing but chaos. Such a feat of physics surely proves God is a physicist!"
King County Council holds meetings during business hours in Seattle. This puts attendance out of reach of most King County residents. I will lobby for meetings to be held periodically in community centers across the county in the evening hours. I will personally visit affected community centers across the 9th district to record local voices and remotely attend the Council meetings.
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Other survey responses
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 1, 2025
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