Carolyn Rice

Democratic member of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners (Dayton), seeking re-election in 2026 in the sweep's most competitive county-board race.

Key facts

• A former county treasurer, elected to the Board of Commissioners in 2018 and re-elected in 2022.
• 2026: faces Republican Margie Christie (a former Dayton Right to Life director) and an independent, Michael King, in a genuinely competitive race in a swing county.

Connections

• Her seat is one of the few county-board contests in this sweep that is actually up for grabs — a marker of Montgomery County's close partisan split. Part of Dayton 2026 Elections.