Alex Beal

Justice of the Peace

Dept. 1

Alex graduated from the University of Montana in 2000 with a degree in economics and from the UM School of Law in 2005. Alex worked as a prosecutor, public defender and as an attorney in private practice, handling a wide variety of cases. In 2016, he was appointed as an assistant Missoula Municipal Court Judge. In November 2018, he was elected Missoula County Justice of the Peace.

Alex is a former member of the Montana State Bar Dispute Resolution Committee, the Lolo School District School Board and the Missoula mayor’s Downtown Advisory Commission (which focuses on issues of quality of life for downtown Missoula). Alex currently serves on the Missoula County DUI Task Force, which brings together a cross-section of the community to find solutions for our impaired driving epidemic. Alex is a regular participant in the Justice Alliance for Behavioral Health, a local collaboration of mental health and judicial professionals.

He lives in Lolo with his wife and two sons. He is rumored to have hobbies.

Judge Beal will be up for re-election in 2026.

Landee Holloway

Justice of the Peace

Dept. 2

Judge Landee Holloway obtained a bachelor's degree in criminology, with a minor in psychology, from Southern Oregon State College before making Missoula her home in 1992. In Missoula, Judge Holloway started her career at the Missoula Pre-Release Center before working for the Montana Department of Corrections. In her 21 years with the DOC, she worked as a traditional probation and parole officer, intensive supervision officer, supervisor and re-entry probation and parole officer.

While at the DOC, Judge Holloway led the Office of Offender Re-entry, a statewide group tasked with improving the department’s re-entry efforts in conjunction with the Governor’s Re-entry Initiative. Judge Holloway also played a key role in developing Partners for Reintegration, a local grassroots coalition focused on education and advocacy to reduce barriers for those returning from incarceration.

Judge Holloway has been recognized as the Missoula Exchange Club’s Probation and Parole Officer of the Year and presented with the Montana Governor’s Award for Excellence in Performance. She served on the steering committee for the Missoula Jail Diversion Master Plan. The Missoula County Board of County Commissioners appointed her to fill the interim term as Missoula County Justice of the Peace in 2016. She was elected to her first full term in 2018.

As an engaged member of the Missoula community, Judge Holloway has volunteered with numerous organizations, including the Literacy Volunteers of America, the Missoula Marathon and Camp Mak-A-Dream and the Special Olympics. She served as Board Chair for Western Montana Addiction Services and on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Missoula.

Judge Holloway lives in Missoula with her husband, Nick, and their son, Jackson. She enjoys cooking and spending time with her family and friends in the great outdoors.

Judge Holloway will be up for re-election in 2026.