{"id":11475,"date":"2011-08-02T03:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=11475"},"modified":"2011-08-03T03:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T08:11:07","slug":"new-interim-county-recorder-excited-to-get-the-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/08\/02\/new-interim-county-recorder-excited-to-get-the-position\/","title":{"rendered":"New interim county recorder appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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County Auditor Nancy Dixon (left) and new Interim County Recorder Kim Hughes talk during a meeting in the County Board of Commissioners Office on Monday morning. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new interim Van Wert County Recorder has plenty of experience as a county employee, and not just in the recorder\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Kim Hughes is the most senior member of the recorder\u2019s office staff, with 11 years as a deputy recorder under former recorders Nancy Harting and Jan McIntosh. She also has another five years of experience as a deputy clerk in the County Clerk of Courts\u2019 Title Department, where she helped customers obtain titles for vehicles and mobile homes.<\/p>\n

Hughes, a 1980 graduate of Lincolnview High School, was approved Monday morning by the Board of County Commissioners as the interim recorder, replacing McIntosh, who retired Friday after seven years as recorder and more than 30 years in the recorder\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Hughes still needs to be confirmed as recorder by the Van Wert County Republican Central Committee, which is expected to take place by mid-August. If Republicans do the expected and choose Hughes as the new county recorder, she would then be expected to run for re-election in 2012 when McIntosh\u2019s current four-year term expires.<\/p>\n

Hughes said Monday she is excited to be named interim recorder and hopes to be confirmed as McIntosh\u2019s replacement by the Republican Central Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider it an honor and a privilege to be the recorder of Van Wert County,\u201d Hughes noted. \u201cMy predecessors, Nancy Harting and Jan McIntosh, have given me all the skills, I believe, that I need, and I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes said she first took a position as deputy recorder in 2000 after a part-time stint in the Clerk of Courts\u2019 Title Department that began in 1995.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted part-time; that\u2019s what I was looking for at the time,\u201d Hughes said, adding that she later wanted to work full-time and Harting, who was then recorder, had a full-time position available.<\/p>\n

Although she admitted that there would be challenges ahead for the Recorder’s Office, she feels her staff is up to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very much down-staffed, but we have a good team,\u201d Hughes noted of the Recorder\u2019s Office\u2019s staff, which includes a full-time deputy recorder, Kerry Tuttle, who has four years of experience in the Recorder\u2019s Office — but also more than a decade in the Clerk of Courts Office — and two part-time staff members.<\/p>\n

Hughes said the small staff might mean she will have to do more personally, but she said that\u2019s not a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m willing to work very hard to get the job done,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor The new interim Van Wert County Recorder has plenty of experience as a county employee, and not just in the recorder\u2019s office. Unsurprisingly, Kim Hughes is the most senior member of the recorder\u2019s office staff, with 11 years as a deputy recorder under former recorders Nancy Harting and Jan McIntosh. She also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 13:20:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}