{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nThomas Byron Langan is the sitting District Court Judge for North Carolina's 17B Judicial District, which serves Stokes and Surry counties, and is running for re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election [1].\n\n## Background and education\nLangan holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a law degree from Wake Forest University [1].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Thomas Langan - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Thomas_Langan) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-20 (Ballotpedia notes this page is outside its routine local-coverage scope and was last updated at his most recent election/appointment; the infobox facts used here -- present officeholder of the 17B district, Duke undergraduate, Wake Forest J.D. -- are otherwise unsourced elsewhere and are attributed to Ballotpedia only.)","campaigns":[{"contest":"district_court_judge_dist_023_seat_02","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT","pgr":"general","state":"NC","title":"Nc District Court Judge District 23 Seat 02"}],"cf_filings":[],"firstname":"Thomas","fullname":"Thomas Byron Langan","lastname":"Langan","middlename":"Byron","office_history":[{"campaigns":[{"contest":"district_court_judge_dist_023_seat_02","contest_title":"Nc District Court Judge District 23 Seat 02","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"2026-11-03","office_county":null,"office_key":"district_court_judge","office_title":"District Court Judge","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"}],"county":null,"cycles":[{"general":{"contest":"district_court_judge_dist_023_seat_02","contest_title":"Nc District Court Judge District 23 Seat 02","county":null,"county_count":0,"electiondate":"2026-11-03","office_county":null,"office_key":"district_court_judge","office_title":"District Court Judge","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"},"party":"REP","primary":null,"term":null,"year":2026}],"office_key":"district_court_judge","office_title":"District Court Judge","state":"NC","terms":[]}],"summary":"Thomas Byron Langan, a Republican incumbent, is running for re\u2011election as District Court Judge for North Carolina\u2019s 17B Judicial District.","terms":[],"token":"1f45f750b69ebdbb"}