After seven years, Lake County Board of Elections and Registration assistant director LeAnn Angerman left her position with the elections department to start a new role as regional director for U.S. Sen.
Jim Banks. Angerman’s last day with the Lake County Board of Elections and Registration was Feb. 1, and she begins her new position on Feb.
3. Lake County Republican Party Chairman Randy Niemeyer selected Jessica Messler, the Lake County Republican Party executive director, to take over as assistant director, which is held by a Republican in the bipartisan election office. Around Christmas time, Angerman said Banks reached out to her to ask if she’d like to come on as regional director.
Angerman said she took the weekend to talk to her family and friends about the position and ultimately decided to accept. “It was not an easy decision because I do love it here. Elections, what we’ve worked on with all the training modules, that is my passion.
That is what I love, so it was not an easy choice,” Angerman said. Angerman and Banks have worked together in the same circles for over a decade, she said, so she’s been able to get to know him and his staff really well. As regional director, Angerman said she will cover 10 counties in Northwest Indiana as a liaison to the senator.
She will meet with local government officials, economic drivers and stakeholders to relay their needs and thoughts to the senator, Angerman said. Lake County Board of Elections and Registration Ass.
