By noon on the day after the election for an open seat on Cobb County Superior Court, the two candidates who made it into a runoff were battling over who’d best promote law and order, and the third-place contender had picked one of them to endorse.
Cobb County Senior Assistant District Attorney Ann Harris led a field of three candidates to replace retiring Judge James Bodiford. She garnered 23,638 votes, or 40.76 percent of Tuesday’s turnout, which was only 17.45 percent of registered Cobb voters, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s website. Cobb Juvenile Court Judge Juanita Stedman came in second, with 18,334 votes, or 31.61 percent, securing a spot in the July 22 runoff with Harris. Attorney and Marietta Municipal Court Judge Nathan Wade came in a close third, with 16,021 votes, or 27.63 percent.
