Everett Hildenbrandt is an unaffiliated candidate for Grand County Commission District 5 in 2026. His campaign biography says he trained as an engineer at the Colorado School of Mines and became chief executive of Runtime Verification in 2024. A 2021 University of Illinois event profile identified him as the company’s chief technology officer and a formal-modeling engineer who had studied in the university’s computer-science program. His campaign also describes becoming chair of the League of Women Voters of Southeast Utah in 2025.