Marshall Slight
Republican · WA · Yakima County Coroner
Marshall Slight is Yakima County Coroner. The office investigates sudden, unexpected, violent, suspicious, and unnatural deaths.
Where Marshall Slight stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (1 record), Government Efficiency (2 records)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 1 support
Published the Yakima County Coroner's Office 2025 Annual Summary, reporting that the coroner assumed jurisdiction over 766 of the 1,977 deaths recorded in Yakima County during 2025, ordered 66 autopsies, and recorded 22 homicides plus 58 deaths from combined fentanyl and methamphetamine toxicity and 26 from fentanyl alone, and shared the data with valley agencies for prevention work.
July 29, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: yakimacounty.us · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 2 support
Published the Yakima County Coroner's Office 2025 Annual Summary, reporting that the coroner assumed jurisdiction over 766 of the 1,977 deaths recorded in Yakima County during 2025, ordered 66 autopsies, and recorded 22 homicides plus 58 deaths from combined fentanyl and methamphetamine toxicity and 26 from fentanyl alone, and shared the data with valley agencies for prevention work.
July 29, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: yakimacounty.us · researched July 30, 2026
Issued the Yakima County Coroner's Office 2024 Annual Summary while serving as interim county coroner, reporting that the coroner assumed jurisdiction over 818 of the 1,831 deaths recorded in Yakima County during 2024, ordered 63 autopsies, and logged 516 hospice-death reports.
January 31, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: yakimacounty.us · researched July 30, 2026
Track record — General
General · 2 records
Served as the elected Yakima County Coroner directing the office that investigates sudden, unexpected, violent, suspicious and unnatural deaths in Yakima County and supervising the chief deputy coroner and investigative staff who document findings for families, law enforcement and the courts.
July 29, 2026
Source: yakimacounty.us · researched July 30, 2026
Took office as Yakima County Coroner on a unanimous vote of the Yakima County Board of Commissioners, filling the vacancy left by Jim Curtice's April 2025 resignation after having run the office as interim coroner since September 2024 and as chief deputy coroner before that.
May 20, 2025
Source: yakimaherald.com · researched July 30, 2026
Past race Marshall Slight ran in:
- Coroner · August 4, 2026 · Yakima County, Washington · incumbent
Profile last researched July 25, 2026.