# Lodi City Council, District 2 Compare records and positions simply between Lisa Craig-Hensley or Jordan Duncan for Lodi City Council, District 2 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold your district's seat on Lodi's five-member City Council. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed city manager runs daily operations. Lodi's Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore are not elected directly. Those titles are currently held by the District 4 and District 5 councilmembers. Neither of those seats is up this cycle. Only Districts 1, 2, and 3 are on the ballot this cycle. Districts 4 and 5 were last elected in 2020. They return in 2028. The term is four years, and Lodi sets no term limit. - Jurisdiction: City of Lodi - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/lodi-council-2 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 89 out of 100 (Strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Lisa Craig-Hensley** — Incumbent - **Jordan Duncan** — Father/Law Enforcement A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Lisa Craig-Hensley faces one challenger, Jordan Duncan, a former Lodi police officer, for Lodi's District 2 council seat. Lodi's City Council has five members, one per district, each serving a 4-year term with no term limit. The Council sets city ordinances, the budget, and land-use policy; an appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations. Lodi's Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore are not elected directly -- the county's own Nov. 2026 office list carries no separate Lodi Mayor race, and the city's own roster page shows those titles currently held by its District 4 and District 5 councilmembers, neither up this cycle. Only Districts 1, 2, and 3 are on the ballot this cycle; Districts 4 and 5 were last elected in 2020 and return in 2028. This is a direct plurality election with no primary and no runoff -- whichever candidate receives the most votes on November 3 wins outright. Craig-Hensley has held this seat since 2022 and served a term as the city's Mayor in 2024. ## Lisa Craig-Hensley The incumbent, seeking reelection; her filed ballot designation is "Incumbent." A Lodi native (Tokay High, class of 1978), she is principal of The Craig Group Partners, a consulting firm focused on climate resilience and historic-property redevelopment, and manages Kettleman Station, a commercial retail center on Highway 99. Before returning to Lodi in 2018, she spent 35 years in the Washington, D.C. area working in city planning, military housing, property rehabilitation, and Main Street revitalization, later consulting for municipalities in Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Trinidad and Tobago on climate adaptation. Elected to Council in November 2022, she served as Mayor in 2024, during which she led the hiring process for a new City Manager and convened a town hall on homelessness. She chairs the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission and has focused on downtown revitalization, park improvements, clean energy (the Lodi Energy Center Hydrogen Hub), and economic incentives for the city's historic districts. **Strengths:** A planning and disaster-resilience career relevant to the Council's land-use work. She also completed a term as Mayor and chairs the Rail Commission. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting evaluating her first term was found, beyond her own city-published bio. **Keep in mind:** Her consulting firm's clients could in principle overlap with Council land-use or redevelopment votes. No reporting alleges a specific conflict, but it is a structural detail worth knowing. ## Jordan Duncan A first-time candidate; his filed ballot designation is "Father/Law Enforcement." A lifelong Lodi resident and 2012 Lodi High graduate who attended San Joaquin Delta College, Duncan was a Lodi Police officer for roughly four months in 2019 before being terminated -- by his own account, for refusing to enforce COVID-19-era public-health closures of churches and businesses he considered essential. He has since continued in law enforcement elsewhere, including work as a school resource officer, a SWAT team member, a defensive-tactics instructor, and a community-oriented-policing adviser, and previously served as a San Joaquin County deputy sheriff trainee. His campaign centers on fiscal restraint -- he has said city government "needs to operate within its means, prioritize essential services, and carefully evaluate how taxpayer dollars are spent," and opposes raising taxes as a default response to budget pressure -- alongside public safety, including clean, safe parks: "Residents should be able to take their children out on a walk or to the park and not feel uneasy or unsafe." **Strengths:** Direct law-enforcement and public-safety experience, relevant to a frequent Council topic. He also has lifelong roots in the district he would represent. **Trade-offs:** He holds no prior elected office. His tenure with the Lodi Police Department was brief and contested, with no independent account of it. **Keep in mind:** His account of why he was fired is his own. No independent confirmation or dispute of it was found, from the Lodi Police Department or other reporting. ## Sources 1. [San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters -- official "Offices Up for Election" document for the Nov. 3, 2026 General Election: lists the City of Lodi's three offices -- Member of City Council, Districts 1, 2, and 3, each a 4-year term, elected by district, 20 nominations needed -- with no separate Mayor line.](https://www.sjgov.org/docs/default-source/registrar-of-voters-documents/elections/gubernatorial-general-election-2026/candidate-services/offices-up-for-2026-general-election.pdf) 2. [San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters -- official "Candidate List" (report CFMR009), Qualified Candidates Only, printed 8/20/2026: names all three Lodi City Council contests "On Ballot: Yes" with each candidate's filed ballot designation and filing date -- District 1 (Brandon Sywassink, Michael Carouba, Dawson Hayre), District 2 (Lisa Craig-Hensley, Jordan Duncan), District 3 (Deanne Barth, Christopher S. Anderson, Cameron Bregman).](https://www.sjgov.org/docs/default-source/registrar-of-voters-documents/elections/gubernatorial-general-election-2026/candidate-services/candidate-roster-(35).pdf) 3. [City of Lodi -- official "Filing Status of 2026 General Election Candidates" page: independently confirms the identical eight qualified candidates across the identical three districts as the county's own Candidate List, plus one candidate, Christopher Hall, who did not qualify for District 3 (papers never submitted) -- correctly absent from the county's Qualified list.](https://www.lodi.gov/988/Filing-Status-of-2026-General-Election-C) 4. [City of Lodi -- official "City Council Members and Districts" and "Council Districts" pages: name the five sitting Councilmembers with district numbers (Nakanishi D1, Craig D2, Bregman D3, Mayor Yepez D4, Mayor Pro Tempore Hothi D5), state Districts 1-3 were last elected Nov. 2018 (terms ending Dec. 2026, up this cycle) and Districts 4-5 Nov. 2020 (terms ending Dec. 2028, not up this cycle), and state Council members serve 4-year terms with no term limit.](https://www.lodi.gov/879/City-Council-Members-and-Districts) 5. [City of Lodi -- official Council biography page for Lisa Craig-Hensley: a Lodi native (Tokay High, class of 1978) and principal of The Craig Group Partners, a climate-resilience and historic-property-redevelopment consulting firm; spent 35 years in the Washington, D.C. area in city planning and disaster-resilience consulting before returning to Lodi in 2018; elected Nov. 2022, served as Mayor in 2024; chairs the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission.](https://www.lodi.gov/1388/Lisa-Craig) 6. [Lodi News-Sentinel -- "2026 Election: Lodi City Council -- Duncan enters race on fiscal, safety platform" (paywalled; free-preview text only): Jordan Duncan is a lifelong Lodi resident and 2012 Lodi High graduate who filed Aug. 7 to challenge incumbent Lisa Craig-Hensley in District 2; a former Lodi Police officer terminated in 2019 after roughly four months for refusing to enforce COVID-19 public-health closures, now working elsewhere in law enforcement (school resource officer, SWAT, defensive-tactics instructor); campaigns on fiscal restraint and public safety.](https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_81438a95-b9b1-4e59-b108-4ea36a29caa3.html) ## The rest of the ballot Lodi City Council, District 2 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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