Women from Mountain Home made their presence known all across the state in Tuesday’s primary election, including native Melanie Huckaba Martin in a special election for Little Rock district court judge.
Martin was one of four women seeking the District 31 State District Court seat and came away the top vote-getter with 34 percent. Martin will face Margaret “Peggy” Egan, who captured the second largest amount of votes with 26 percent. The winner will be determined in a run-off at the November general election and will fill the final two years of an unexpired term.
Martin is a 1985 graduate of Mountain Home High School. She attended the University of Arkansas and completed law school in Little Rock, where she has lived since 1989. After working in the Little Rock City Attorney’s Office her first year out of law school, Martin has served the citizens of Pulaski County for the past 25 years in the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney.
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Martin says this is the first time she has tested the political waters.
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Martin says while the race for district court judge has required hard work and long hours, it has taken her to parts of Pulaski County she would not have seen otherwise.
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Martin is the daughter of former Mountain Home residents Frank and Joy Huckaba.
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