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County Attorney/Public Administrator

What does this office do?

  • Settling estates when no family member can handle them
  • Caring for adults who cannot care for themselves, in some counties
  • Arranging burials for people with no one to do it, in some counties

Affects: Anti-Corruption, Government Efficiency, Data Privacy

Candidates:

Republican

Zachary Thornley is an attorney who practiced criminal defense and civil litigation in Arizona for about 10 years and has been licensed in Montana since 2023. He pledges to handle all county civil and criminal cases in-house and to prosecute violent and sex crimes more aggressively.

Source: electionresults.mt.gov