{"id":293693,"date":"2026-05-15T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293693\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:09:13","slug":"hunter-ware-garcia-dumas-and-ross-sworn-in-may-12-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293693\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter, Ware, Garcia-Dumas, and Ross Sworn In May 12, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on May 13, 2026<\/p>\n


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By Office of Communication<\/p>\n

Surrounded by family and friends, the newly elected District 4 and 5 Council Representatives were sworn in during the May 12, 2026, evening City Council meeting. Tom Ware and Brittney Garcia-Dumas were elected May 2 to their first three-year terms to serve. Ware represents City Council District 4, which encompasses The Parks at Arlington Mall, a portion of the I-20 business corridor, and the training facilities for the Police and Fire departments. Garcia-Dumas represents District 5, which includes Downtown Arlington, City Hall, The University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library, and General Motors.<\/p>\n

Arlington City Council incumbent Nikkie Hunter was also sworn in during Tuesday\u2019s meeting. The District 3 City Council representative has served since 2021. District 3 represents the portion of the city bounded primarily by Matlock Road on the west and Pioneer Parkway on the north. District 3 includes a portion of the I-20 business corridor, the Arlington Municipal Airport, Tarrant County College, and the Arlington Highlands.<\/p>\n

Mayor Jim Ross was re-elected to his third and final term as Mayor. He has served as mayor since 2021.<\/p>\n

Click here to learn about the Arlington City Council.<\/a><\/p>\n

None of the three candidates for the open City Council District 8 At-Large seat received more than 50% of the vote. Jason Shelton, who received 38.27% of the vote, and Melody Fowler, who received 46.91% of the vote, will face off in a run-off election on June 13. Early voting for the June 13 runoff election is from June 1-9, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on May 13, 2026 By Office of Communication Surrounded by family and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-293693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}