District 10 · Seat 38 · Minnesota · General Election 2026
Ben Lacy
for Judge
Justice rooted in community.
Managing Attorney for Tubman representing survivors of domestic violence and a former Washington County prosecutor. A decade in the courtroom, and a record built on fairness, temperament, and keeping the humanity in every case that comes before the bench.
- Anoka
- Chisago
- Isanti
- Kanabec
- Pine
- Sherburne
- Washington
- Wright
Why Ben Lacy
Shaped by all sides of the courtroom.
Ben has seen the courts from the prosecutor’s table and from the seat beside the survivor. He has practiced in this district, lives in this district, and grew up in this district. That full picture is what he’ll bring to the bench.
01 · Experience
A decade on both sides of the table.
Ben began his legal career at the Washington County Attorney’s Office, first as a law clerk and then as a criminal prosecutor, with a clerkship for the Honorable B. William Ekstrum in between.
For the past six years he has served metro-area survivors of domestic violence at Tubman, where he is now Managing Attorney. He earned his JD cum laude from Mitchell Hamline, with an MBA alongside it.
02 · Roots
Stillwater, then and now.
Ben grew up in Stillwater, graduated from Stillwater Area High School, and earned his Eagle Scout rank with a project at Stonebridge Elementary.
He lives in Stillwater with his wife Klancie and their two children, Lachlan and Ari, in the same community whose courthouse he’s asking to serve.
03 · Character
Keep the humanity in the system.
Past president of the Washington County Bar Association. Youth soccer coach with SCVAA. Board member for a historic building corporation in downtown Stillwater.
Across every chapter, the same throughline: a temperament that listens, and a belief that every person in a courtroom deserves to be treated like a human being, not a case number.
Survivor advocacy
Working for the people the system is hardest on.
Ben is Managing Attorney at Tubman, a Minnesota nonprofit that helps people facing relationship violence, sexual exploitation, addiction, and mental health crises find safety and rebuild. He leads the legal team that stands with those clients in court.
Most people who come to Tubman are not there by choice. They arrive in the middle of the worst week of their lives, often without a lawyer, and are asked to explain themselves in a courtroom built for people who already know how it works. Ben has spent six years making sure they are not alone in that room.
That work is why he understands the difference a judge makes. A judge who listens, who explains the reasoning, and who treats the person in front of them as a person changes whether someone trusts the system enough to come back.
It is also what completes his record. Ben has prosecuted cases and he has sat beside survivors, so he knows what the state owes a defendant and what a survivor needs in order to feel heard.
He has argued both sides of that balance in real courtrooms in this district. That is the judgment he would bring to the bench.
“Systems by their very nature are hard to keep the humanity in. I want to help keep the humanity in our community when elected as judge.”
Ben Lacy · In his own words
Downtown Stillwater and the St. Croix River
On the bench
Two challenges he’ll take on from day one.
Mental health in our courts.
Mental health is a crisis in our courts. Ben will work to see these cases treated fairly and with respect, and push toward a specialty court where the underlying issue can truly be addressed rather than just processed.
Technology without losing humanity.
Artificial intelligence will test the ability of our courts to adapt. Ben has shaped systems everywhere he has worked, and he’ll bring that perspective to bridge the judiciary into the future. AI can never replace humanity in the courtroom.
Justice rooted in community.
At home in the district
Stillwater, born and raised.
Ben, 38, lives in Stillwater with his wife Klancie and their two children, Lachlan and Ari. When he isn’t in a courtroom, you’ll find him coaching youth soccer, helping preserve a historic building downtown, or volunteering with Minnesota Masonic Charities.
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