No longer on the ballot
Brenda Quick withdrew from the November 3, 2026 general election on August 5, 2026 and will not appear on the ballot. This profile is kept for the record. Source: Idaho Secretary of State.
Brenda Quick
Idaho Senate, District 21
Brenda H. Quick: Idaho Senate District 21
Brenda H. Quick won the Democratic primary for Idaho Senate District 21 on May 19, 2026, running unopposed with 1,310 votes, or 100 percent, per certified Idaho Secretary of State results. She then withdrew from the race on August 5, 2026, and is not on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot. This profile describes who she is and what she campaigned on, for readers who saw her name on the primary ballot or in early coverage of the race.
Background
Quick is a third-generation Idaho native who grew up attending Idaho public schools, according to her campaign website. She has been a single mother to her son, an Eagle Scout, for 32 years, per her law firm's site.
Her education, per the Quick Ankrum Law website, began with an Associate of Arts and Sciences degree in General Studies from Bellevue Community College in 1994. She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1997 with dual degrees in Sociology and Speech Communication, earned a Master of Public Administration from the University of Idaho in 2000, and received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Idaho College of Law in 2002.
Legal career
Quick has practiced family law in Idaho since 2006 and was admitted to the U.S. District Court on April 27, 2006. She is a partner at Quick Ankrum Law, PLLC, a bilingual firm where she practices alongside partner Kendra S. Ankrum. Her practice spans family law, civil and criminal litigation, immigration, commercial leasing, contract negotiation, guardianships and conservatorships, and adoption. She is one of a small number of Idaho attorneys who handle Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases, which help children who cannot safely return to their or their parents' home countries because of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
Her casework has included hundreds of contested divorces, dissolutions, child custody and modification cases, and disputed post-marital proceedings. She is an approved mediator in family law and civil cases through the Idaho Supreme Court and an approved family law mediator through Ada County Court, and has served as a court-appointed mediator and guardian ad litem for the Family Law and Juvenile Courts. Separately from her firm, she is a founding member of Collaborative Professionals of Idaho, Inc., which promotes collaborative law and mediation as lower-conflict ways to restructure families.
Her volunteer history, per her campaign website, includes Girl Scouts and Brownies as a child and, more recently, Boy Scout volunteer work supporting her son's troop, delivering food and raking lawns for elderly residents, and food-pantry donations. Her board service includes the Edward and Shirley Bews Foundation and Season to Soar, a youth and underserved leadership nonprofit. She has done pro bono veterans' work through the Idaho Law Foundation, and through Allona's Angels she provided more than 100 stuffed Christmas stockings to elderly memory-care patients in 2025.
Campaign priorities
Her campaign website listed three priorities: strengthening government accountability, expanding educational opportunities for Idaho youth, and supporting the growth of local businesses. She did not respond to the CBS2/FOX9 "Know Your Candidates" survey, so those three statements stand as the clearest record of what she ran on.
Campaign finance
Her filings with Idaho's Sunshine financial disclosure database show a small-budget campaign funded entirely by individual, out-of-state donors. For the 2026 cycle to date, as of her last filed report, she reported $615.34 in total contributions and $1,832.67 in loans received. She spent $2,293.20, leaving an ending cash balance of $154.81 and $1,378.64 in outstanding debt. Her largest contributors were Matthew Erickson at $277.77, Gwen Goodkin at $125, Robin Davis at $100, and Brett Quick, likely a family member, at $100.
Sources
Profile published by IdahoVoters.com. Last updated September 26, 2026. This profile will be updated as additional information becomes available.
Frequently Asked Questions
- QIs Brenda Quick on the November 2026 ballot?
- ANo. She won the May 19, 2026 Democratic primary for Senate District 21 unopposed, then withdrew from the race on August 5, 2026. She is not on the November 3 general election ballot.
- QWhat was her primary result?
- AShe received 1,310 votes, or 100 percent, in the unopposed Democratic primary, per certified Idaho Secretary of State results.
- QWhat is her professional background?
- AShe is a Meridian-area attorney and partner at Quick Ankrum Law, PLLC. She has practiced family law since 2006, with additional work in civil and criminal litigation, immigration, guardianships, and adoption, and she is an approved mediator through the Idaho Supreme Court and Ada County Court.
- QWhat did she campaign on?
- AHer campaign website listed three priorities: strengthening government accountability, expanding educational opportunities for Idaho youth, and supporting the growth of local businesses.
- QHow much money did her campaign raise?
- APer her Sunshine filing, her 2026 cycle-to-date totals included $615.34 in contributions, all from out-of-state individuals, $1,832.67 in loans received, $2,293.20 in expenditures, and an ending cash balance of $154.81, with $1,378.64 in outstanding debt.
- QWho runs in Senate District 21 in November?
- AWith Quick's withdrawal, Republican incumbent Treg A. Bernt is unopposed for the general election, barring a write-in candidacy.