 In 2016, Ridgeway was re-elected to a four-year term as the Eastern District Commissioner of Clay County, Missouri with 61.7% of the vote.In 2019, the Clay County Commission was found by Judge Daren Adkins to have intentionally underfunded the Sheriff's department by $1,000,000 and ordered to pay the department that sum.The judge stated he did not find any legal deficiencies in the 2018 budget, and the Sheriff's 2019 budget was at least $200,000 more than was budgeted in 2018.