Lynda Sanchez is originally from Houston, Texas. She attended the University of St. Thomas. She lives with her husband, Gaston Kroneman, and their two children.

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Lynda currently works as the owner of a logistics company. She previously worked as a Spanish teacher and as a Spanish interpreter in Harris County district courts.

Lynda's campaign for Harris County Clerk is her first run for public office.

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Plans to bring discipline, accountability, and results-driven management to the Clerk’s Office, focusing on modernizing systems, reducing backlogs, improving customer service, and ensuring professionalism and integrity.

Prioritizes restoring public trust through professional and transparent management.

Aims to protect access to public records, increase transparency, safeguard taxpayer dollars, and restore trust in the Clerk's Office while delivering competent service and raising standards in county government.

Emphasizes modernizing outdated systems to improve efficiency and reduce delays.

Supports cutting case backlogs and improving workflow processes.

Supports improving customer service and making the office easier for residents to navigate.

Emphasizes fiscal responsibility and careful use of taxpayer dollars.

Supports expanding public access to records while keeping fees low.

Believes elections and records management should be reliable and non-partisan.

- Prioritizes restoring public trust through professional and transparent management.
- Emphasizes modernizing outdated systems to improve efficiency and reduce delays.
- Supports cutting case backlogs and improving workflow processes.
- Supports improving customer service and making the office easier for residents to navigate.
- Emphasizes fiscal responsibility and careful use of taxpayer dollars.
- Supports expanding public access to records while keeping fees low.
- Believes elections and records management should be reliable and non-partisan.

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Lynda Sanchez

Lynda Sanchez is originally from Houston, Texas. She attended the University of St. Thomas. Lynda lives with her husband, Gaston Kroneman, and their two children.

- Prioritizes restoring public trust through professional and transparent management.
- Supports cutting case backlogs and improving workflow processes.
- Supports improving customer service and making the office easier for residents to navigate.
- Emphasizes fiscal responsibility and careful use of taxpayer dollars.
- Supports expanding public access to records while keeping fees low.
- Believes elections and records management should be reliable and non-partisan.

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Mike Wolfe is a Harris County native. He attended the University of St. Thomas and Houston Baptist University. He attends church. 

Mike previously worked as a child support officer for the attorney general, a government affairs specialist, a juvenile supervision office, and a high school social studies teacher. 

Mike Wolfe's campaign for Harris County Clerk is his first entry into politics.

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Mike previously served on the Harris County Department of Education Board as an at-large member in 2015 for one term. He previously ran for Baytown mayor in 2004, a Texas State Board of Education position in 2022, and for the Harris County Justice of the Peace Precinct 5 Place 1 position in 2020, but did not win.

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Plans to modernize digital systems, improve access, and use technology to increase transparency.

Plans to fund improvements through cost savings in existing budgets, without new funding or laws.

- Plans to modernize digital systems, improve access, and use technology to increase transparency.
- Plans to fund improvements through cost savings in existing budgets, without new funding or laws.

Mike Wolfe

Mike previously served on the Harris County Department of Education Board as an at-large member in 2015 for one term. He previously ran for Baytown mayor in 2004, a Texas State Board of Education position in 2022 and for the Harris County Justice of the Peace Precinct 5 Place 1 position in 2020 ,but did not win.

- Plans on assessing and modernizing digital infrastructure, enhancing accessibility and outreach, and integrating new technology to improve transparency.
- Plans on using existing budgets through cost-saving measures instead of using new funding or legislation to improve operations.

As of January 22, 2026, Mike Wolfe’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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