Lieutenant Governor candidate stops in Ekalaka

Kristen Juras, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Montana, stopped in Ekalaka last Thursday afternoon.

Juras was accompanied by fellow Republican Jerry Schillinger who is running for election to the Montana House of Representatives to represent District 37. The two met with a few locals at Wagon Wheel Café and discussed topics including agriculture, meat processing and the current state of Highway 7 and Highway 323.

Juras is a fourth-generation Montanan who grew up on her family’s ranch near Conrad. She graduated from the University of Montana and from the University of Georgia Law School.

Juras has taught at the University of Montana Law School for twenty years and ran for the Montana Supreme Court in 2016. Her and her husband of 35 years, John, have three sons and two grandchildren. She is an attorney in private practice.