Tanya Brown Maddux won the June 13 runoff election to become the next Conroe Municipal Judge, defeating Jay Gross and making history as the first woman elected to the position in Conroe's history.

Maddux, a lifelong Conroe resident, led the three-way May 2 general election with nearly 50 percent of the vote — ahead of Gross and James Holian — before advancing to tonight's runoff. She arrived at election night with broad community support built over 25 years of civic involvement, a background in accounting and education, and the kind of roots in Conroe that can't be manufactured on a campaign timeline.

"Conroe deserves steady leadership rooted in fairness, accountability, and respect for every resident."

— Tanya Brown Maddux

Her husband Curt, a former Conroe council member, and their sons have been with her throughout the campaign. The Maddux name carries weight in this community — not from politics alone, but from decades of showing up.

Tonight's result completes a clean sweep across all four races supported by Downtown Conroe PAC. Kristin Hoisington, Ken Blevins, and John Sellars won their City Council seats on May 2 and have already been sworn in. Maddux joins them as the fourth and final piece of an accountability slate that voters chose with clarity.

The campaign ran parallel to a three-part documentary series that laid out the stakes: what downtown Conroe had, what mismanagement had cost it, and who was asking voters for the chance to fix it. Conroe answered.

All four won. The work starts now.