A GOP runoff win has put a veteran and engineering expert into the commissioner’s court seat which represents the Kingsland area.
Brent Richards defeated Louis “Bull” Guthrie by 72.67% of the vote to clinch the Republican nomination for Pct. 3 Llano County commissioner, according to preliminary election night results.
Richards received 234 votes to Guthrie's 88 votes. Since no Democrats filed to run for the position, Richards will be sworn in on Jan. 1, 2025.
Prior to the election, Richards, a U.S. Navy veteran, offered a statement to The Highlander about his qualifications. “My education and experi ence uniquely qualifies me as a commissioner to help lead the county forward,” he stated. “I am a biblical constitutional conservative Republican and I get results.”
According to excerpts from his biog- raphy, in the 1980 and 1990s, he worked for communities in San Bernadino, Orange and Riverside counties in California in the area of civil engineering.
In April 1993 Richards went to work for a private engineering consulting firm as a se - nior project engineer.
He was then promoted to vice-president in 1996 and became directly responsible for
civil and traffic engi neering projects ranging from $5,000,000 to $25,000,000 with direct contact with the developers from all over California and north Texas.
He retired in October 2009 and 21 days later he and his wife came to Llano. In July 2010 they moved into a new home built in Buchanan Dam but then sold it in September 2021 and moved to Kingsland.
