Judy Sarden, an attorney and homeschooling advocate who lives in Northeast Cobb, has announced her campaign for District 3 on the Cobb Board of Commissioners.
She is running in the May 24 Republican primary, and has lived in Cobb County for 15 years, initially residing in South Cobb.
District 3 is currently held by Republican JoAnn Birrell, whose third term expires at the end of 2022.
Sarden announced her campaign on Friday, and in a release said that she “understands first-hand why people move to and stay in Cobb County as well as the challenges that Cobb families face—specifically, zoning issues, county finance accountability, keeping taxes low, providing the best education for our children and maintaining an active and vibrant community.”
She said that her objective “is to serve the people of District 3 as a Commissioner who listens to her constituents and who ensures that their voices are heard at the county level. She understands that regardless of who a constituent voted for, our County commissioner represents all residents of her district and she hopes to help our community begin to healafter the divisiveness of the recent past.”
Sarden’s campaign website can be found here. She filed her declaration of intent to run on Feb. 11. Qualifying for the primaries is March 7-11.
On her campaign site, Sarden also mentioned East Cobb Cityhood, which is also on the primary ballot for eligible voters in the proposed city.
Sarden said while she supports voters having the right to decide on whether to become a city, “there appear to be many unanswered questions that the original feasibility study did not answer and that need to be addressed and debated before a vote should occur.”
She said the referendum is taking place along a “rushed timeline” and linked to a special work session held by commissioners last week (previous ECN story here).
While the current District 3 boundaries do not include the proposed city of East Cobb, a bill moving through the Georgia legislature would redraw the seat to cover the proposed city, and most of the East Cobb area in general.
Sarden and her husband homeschool two children and she also has an adult son and two grandchildren. The family attends First Baptist Church in Woodstock.
She earned a business degree from Auburn University and law degree from Samford University, and has been a corporate attorney for more than 20 years.
Sarden also has written a book about homeschooling and has spoken around the country on that topic.
Related:
- 4 candidates qualify in State House special election
- East Cobb Cityhood bill signed into law; May 24 referendum set
- Former East Cobb legislator running in special election
- Special election for Ga. House seat in East Cobb is April 5
- Former East Cobb State House candidate running for Ga. Senate
- Democrat launches campaign for Ga. House special election
- East Cobb Cityhood bill passes Senate committee
- Cupid speaks out on cityhood, redistricting issues
- Cobb Republicans file bill to redistrict county commission seats
- East Cobb Cityhood bill sponsor resigns from legislature
- Cobb Republicans file school board redistricting bill
- East Cobb News Politics & Elections page
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