Tanner Bateman
Republican · WA · Douglas County Coroner
Tanner Bateman has served as county coroner since 2023 and is a registered medicolegal death investigator and Army veteran. He emphasizes thorough, timely investigations, compassionate service, and cost control.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 3 records
Declined to release detailed death information about two East Wenatchee teens killed in a Feb. 9, 2025 crash with a charter bus. He said this spared grieving families more pain. He said his office also stopped publicly listing residents' causes of death in 2024.
March 12, 2025
Source: yoursourceone.com
Won election as Douglas County's coroner on 2022-11-08 with 11,657 votes (98.29%). No other name was on the ballot; write-ins got 203 votes.
November 8, 2022
Source: results.vote.wa.gov
Worked as the county's main investigator of unattended deaths after the county prosecutor hired him in 2020. He said he had handled about 220 death cases by May 2022, most of them hospice deaths.
May 18, 2022
Source: ncwlife.com
Past race Tanner Bateman ran in:
- Douglas County Coroner · November 3, 2026 · Douglas County, Washington · incumbent