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Tom Green County, TX election informationNovember 3, 2026Brought to you by CulturaMinds

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County Judge

Who is on the ballot for County Judge in Tom Green County, Texas, on November 3, 2026? This guide lists one person running for County Judge: Lane Carter (Republican, incumbent).

People running in this race. Party is shown when the official list names one.

These notes are for Tom Green County, Texas offices with only one name on the Texas Secretary of State ballot certification for the November 3, 2026 general election. The report is dated August 28, 2026. The Tom Green County section is pages 1237 and 1238. The certification lists one name, and the party on each line is REP. These pages say certified.

Ballot certification: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/2026-ballot-cert.pdf

This page does not endorse anyone.

Lane Carter

Lane Carter, Republican, is the only name certified for County Judge. The county public-officials list names Lane Carter as Tom Green County Judge. His July 15, 2026 campaign finance report, filed with the county, gives his name as Matthew Lane Carter, nickname Lane. That form name is what the form says. The form lists Tom Green County Judge as both the office held and the office sought for the November 3, 2026 general election. The county judge page uses the email lane.carter@co.tom-green.tx.us.

Ballot certification

Public-officials list

July 15, 2026 campaign finance report

County judge page

What this job is

The county judge page names the judge and does not describe the job. State law does say a county judge may order people to leave a disaster area, and may control who enters or leaves that area, in both the cities and the unincorporated parts of the county, when the judge considers it necessary to protect life or to respond to the disaster.

The Office of Court Administration's October 2026 chart says every Texas county has one constitutional county court, which can hear some civil, criminal, probate, juvenile, and appeal cases. The chart does not say which of those cases the Tom Green County judge still hears. The county also has two county courts at law.

Sources: Tom Green County judge; Texas Government Code, chapter 418; Court structure of Texas, October 2026; Tom Green County courts at law

The area

This office covers Tom Green County, Texas.

The U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 population estimate for Tom Green County, Texas is 120,103. The Comptroller's rural snapshot says the 2020 census count was 120,003, and that San Angelo is the county seat. The city's 2024 population estimate is 100,159. The same snapshot says the median income for a household in the county is $59,853. It does not say which year that income figure is from.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 county population estimates; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 city and town population estimates; Texas Comptroller, Tom Green County rural snapshot; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 cartographic boundaries; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 TIGER/Line roads; U.S. Geological Survey, Global Map 1:1,000,000-scale rivers and lakes

Map of Tom Green County, Texas, outlined and hatched in red, with the neighboring counties named, San Angelo and nearby towns, lakes, rivers, and highways. A small map of Texas shows where the county is.Open the map full size
Tom Green County, Texas is outlined and hatched in red. Everything outside it is shaded gray, with the neighboring counties named. Dots are Census places; San Angelo is the square. Blue lines and shapes are rivers and lakes from the U.S. Geological Survey 1:1,000,000-scale Global Map. Shields mark interstates and U.S. highways, from Census Bureau 2024 road lines. The small map shows where this view sits in Texas. This is not a survey map.

Main industries here

The Comptroller's 2025 productivity report classifies 660,291 acres in Tom Green County, Texas as native pasture and 166,059 acres as dry crop. Those are land classes, not a count of jobs.

The Comptroller's West Texas report covers 30 counties, including Tom Green County, Texas, and the Midland and Odessa metro areas. In that region, the largest industries by employment were oil and gas extraction, support activities for mining, restaurants and other eating places, public education, and construction. The report does not publish a separate industry list for Tom Green County, Texas.

Sources: Texas Comptroller, 2025 productivity values for Tom Green County; Texas Comptroller, West Texas region

Who holds it now

Lane Carter. The county judge page lists Judge Lane Carter.

Source: Tom Green County judge

Who held this seat

The names through Michael D. Brown are from a county history list headed County Judges, 1874-2002, in Tom Green County: Chronicles of Our Heritage. The chapter is signed by Marie Russell, who was county clerk. It is not the current county website. Steve Floyd's last day is from a December 12, 2022 San Angelo Live article. Lane Carter is the judge named on the current county page, which does not give his start date.

This list is not from an official government page.

Sources: Tom Green County: Chronicles of Our Heritage; San Angelo Live, Steve Floyd retiring; Tom Green County judge

The buttons keep terms that overlap that many years back from 2026. A term that reaches into the window is shown in full. This choice stays on this page.

A picture is shown when a public page publishes a portrait of that person. An empty box means no portrait was found. The picture is not part of the office list.

  1. Lane Carter

    Lane Carter

    The source does not give the years.

    The county judge page names him and does not give a start date. He won the 2022 election.

  2. Steve Floyd

    Until December 31, 2022

    A December 12, 2022 San Angelo Live article says he was retiring that December 31 after 9 years as county judge. It does not give his first day.

  3. Michael D. Brown

    1995 – the 2002 list does not say when it ended

    The county history list starts this term in 1995 and does not give an end date.

  4. William R. Moore

    1993 – 1994

  5. Enoch Duncan

    1991 – 1992

  6. Robert P. Post

    1988 – 1991

  7. Thomas C. Massey

    1987 – 1988

  8. Edd B. Keyes

    1959 – 1987

  9. William C. McDonald

    1958 – 1958

  10. Glenn J. Jenkins

    1953 – 1958

  11. Joe L. Mays

    1951 – 1952

  12. I. J. Curtsinger

    1942 – 1951

  13. John M. Davenport

    1940 – 1942

  14. George F. Jones

    1938 – 1940

  15. J. W. Stovall

    1936 – 1938

  16. George F. Jones

    1930 – 1936

  17. J. T. Mathison

    1922 – 1930

  18. C. T. Paul

    1916 – 1922

  19. Oscar Frink

    1912 – 1916

  20. Milburn McCarty

    1910 – 1912

  21. Milton Mays

    1898 – 1910

  22. T. C. Wynn

    1894 – 1898

  23. Milton Mays

    1892 – 1894

  24. W. D. Cochran

    1890 – 1892

  25. James Neill

    1884 – 1890

  26. Joseph Spence, Jr.

    1882 – 1884

  27. S. P. May

    1881 – 1882

  28. Frank Stanley

    1878 – 1881

  29. A. Winston

    1877 – 1878

  30. Hiram Lightner

    1876 – 1877

  31. Francis Corbett Taylor

    1874 – 1876

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