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City of Dixon — City Clerk

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On the ballot

This person is Dixon's separately, citywide-elected City Clerk -- not appointed by the council -- serving as the city's elections official and the custodian of its public records: agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign-disclosure filings. A 4-year term.

Only one candidate qualified for Dixon's elected City Clerk seat: Lupe Ruiz, the city's current Administrative City Clerk. Incumbent elected City Clerk Kristin M. Janisch did not file for re-election. Ruiz was the last candidate citywide to complete her filing, on Aug. 12, 2026 -- the day the extended nomination period closed -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

Dixon's City Clerk is a separately, citywide-elected official -- not appointed by the council -- who serves as the city's elections official and the custodian of its public records: agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign-disclosure filings. A 4-year term.

With no opponent, the useful question is who is stepping into the role rather than who to choose between. Ruiz already runs the office's day-to-day work as Dixon's Administrative City Clerk -- a staff position distinct from the elected City Clerk seat she is now filling -- so her election continues an existing arrangement rather than installing someone new to the office's work.

Lupe Ruiz

Lupe Ruiz is Dixon's Administrative City Clerk, a staff role in which she already manages the office's day-to-day work, and ran unopposed for the separately elected City Clerk seat. Her ballot designation is "Administrative City Clerk." No campaign website or social-media presence could be found for her candidacy, and this dataset found no coverage of her beyond the county's own filing record, the Daily Republic's coverage of the qualified field, and her listing on the city's own council-and-staff roster.

Strengths

Direct, existing familiarity with the office's day-to-day work as the sitting Administrative City Clerk.

Trade-offs

Running unopposed means her transition into the elected seat faces no organized counter-argument this cycle, and this dataset found no independent profile of her beyond her current staff role.

Keep in mind

Incumbent elected City Clerk Kristin M. Janisch did not file for re-election, per the county's own candidate log -- this is an open-seat transition, not a re-election.

Source review: Strong (89/100) · 6 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • content.solanocounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Solano County Registrar of Voters -- official "Candidate Filed Log - November 3, 2026 General Election" (as of 8/20/2026, print timestamp 8/27/2026 9:31 AM) -- City of Dixon section, page 10 of 15
  • cityofdixonca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Dixon -- its own City Council page: names the current Mayor, all four district councilmembers, and the Administrative City Clerk
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Dixon, California": 2020 census population, a 2025 population estimate, and the district-based City Council / at-large Mayor structure
  • dailyrepublic.com (opens in a new tab)Daily Republic -- "Voters have plenty of city, education choices across Solano County" (Todd R. Hansen, Aug. 13, 2026, updated Aug. 18, 2026)
  • dailyrepublic.com (opens in a new tab)Daily Republic -- "Nomination period still open for nearly half of offices up for election" (Todd R. Hansen, Aug. 8, 2026)
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- filer searches for all five Dixon candidates (Jim Ernest, Emily Schroeder, Thom Bogue, Christina Cerna, Lupe Ruiz): every query returned only an Incapsula bot-detection challenge page, confirmed via both the automated fetch tool and a direct HTTP request -- a documented access failure, not a confirmed absence of filings

Last updated September 1, 2026.