Jann Meyers New County Chief Clerk

LOCK HAVEN – The Clinton County Commissioners today announced that Jann Romeo Meyers will be the county’s new chief clerk.

Meyers was present at the commissioners’ morning work session and they said she will be officially hired at their Thursday meeting. She will replace Paula Kistler who resigned under duress in mid-August.

The new chief clerk is a Clinton County native, a former member of Lock Haven City Council who presently serves as chairman of the city planning commission. She told therecord-online the chief clerk’s job was one she had always been interested in. Having worked at the federal, state and city council levels, she said the county post is “another level of public service I would enjoy doing.”

The commissioners spoke glowingly of the hire, Joel Long stating that the Meyers’ appointment will continue a trend over the last eight years to make the chief clerk position more administrative and less clerical in nature. Board chairman Pete Smeltz said Meyers will bring a high level of professionalism to the post.

She is scheduled to start her new position Monday, Oct. 12. Most recently Meyers has been employed in the Financial Aid Office at Lock Haven University. Previously she had been the business manager for the Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union financial center at the university and prior to that was county executive director for the Clinton-Centre Farm Service Agency.

The wife of Michael Meyers, she has a son and a daughter and three grandchildren. She was valedictorian at Lock Haven High School and a summa cum laude graduate of Lock Haven University, her degree in social science with a concentration in economics.