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No endorsement

The race

One seat on Ohio's Sixth District Court of Appeals (the Toledo-area district, including Lucas County), full term commencing February 10, 2027. Roster verified against the CSV's compilation source: incumbent Judge Myron C. Duhart (D), first elected to this court in November 2020, against CJ Kamm (R). Duhart is the incumbent; Kamm is a challenger whose candidacy is documented almost entirely by official filings.

Myron C. Duhart — Incumbent. The fullest judicial ledger in this batch. Service: enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private and rose to JAG officer, prosecuting and defending courts-martial and advising commanders; clerked for Toledo Municipal Judge Robert W. Penn as a student; J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law plus an LL.M. in judicial studies from Duke University, with study at Harvard's Kennedy School; private practice in business litigation, personal injury, and criminal law, in the select cadre of attorneys certified by the Supreme Court of Ohio to handle death-penalty cases. Appointed to Lucas County Common Pleas in 2011 by Gov. Ted Strickland, served as a commercial-docket judge, elected to the Sixth District in 2020, and has served as its presiding judge. When a Supreme Court justice recused from the death-penalty appeal State v. Garrett, the court handed the case to Duhart to sit by assignment. Peer verdict: in the Toledo Bar Association's poll of its members on the November 3, 2026 judicial candidates, 77 percent rated Duhart "highly recommended" — the best showing of any candidate on the ballot, 15 points ahead of the next highest. His stated judicial values, in his own words: "experience, merit, qualifications," "humility," and "respect for the rule of law and due process, respect for others," warning that the judiciary's only asset is public trust. Dirt search at the proven standard: no discipline, no scandal, no signature activist ruling, and no broken promise surfaced anywhere in the deep pass. The doctrinal limit is precise, and it is not a flaw: his documented philosophy is rule-of-law and due-process language of a general kind — nothing retrieved shows a textualist/originalist commitment or a ruling breaking against his own party's preferences, which is the specific record our endorsement of a Democrat requires.

CJ Kamm — Challenger. What the deep pass verifies is short, and we print all of it: Kamm won the Republican primary for this seat as the sole Republican choice (Williams County's official cumulative report shows 3,268 votes); the Huron County Republican Party's executive-committee minutes record "Judge C.J. Kamm" introduced as a candidate for the Sixth District; the Toledo Bar Association lists Kamm among the candidates its members were asked to rate; and county ballot guides list the Duhart–Kamm pairing. What the pass did not find is everything an endorsement needs: the Ballot Brief's September 10, 2026 Toledo guide found no campaign website for Kamm, with the official election filing as the only verifiable source — a finding that matches our own search. No questionnaire answers, no stated judicial philosophy, no practice record, no endorsements list, and no news profile were retrieved from any source.

Pros and cons

Duhart: Pros: A complete, peer-validated record — Army JAG service, death-penalty certification, a decade as a trial judge, six years on this court, a Supreme Court sitting assignment, and the Toledo Bar's top rating at 77 percent "highly recommended." Cons: Under LiberalMind's stated test — not as a judgment on his competence, which the record settles — there is no documented textualist or break record to endorse a Democrat on. Kamm: Pros: The Republican nomination, won on the official primary record; inclusion in the Toledo Bar's candidate-rating process. Cons: No verifiable record of any kind beyond the filing — no philosophy, no platform, no practice history a voter can inspect. That is not a demerit against Kamm personally; it is an absence where evidence must be.

Record gaps

OUR CALL

Our call: no endorsement — insufficient record. The evidentiary basis, stated in full: an endorsement from this page must rest on a stated philosophy or a proven record, for either party. Kamm's deep pass — campaign site, news, questionnaires, endorsements, filings, bar materials — returns the filing and nothing else; there is no record to price, favorably or otherwise, and unproven has never been a demerit here, but it cannot be an endorsement either. Duhart's record is the opposite problem for our doctrine: it is deep, distinguished, and validated by the lawyers who practice before him, and we print it in full above — but it documents competence and due-process temperament, not the proven restrained break record LiberalMind requires before endorsing a Democrat against a Republican. Neither side of the ledger meets our bar on evidence. That is an earned insufficient-record verdict, reached after the digging documented above — not a judgment that either man is unfit.

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Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.

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