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The applicants for Children Services director
This time, no elected officials applied for the job of Butler County Children Services director by the Monday, April 13, deadline.
But the list of 33 applicants did include a few county employees. See the full list of applicants below.
Jeff Centers, former agency finance director who was named interim director after Michael Fox retired March 31, dropped off his resume.
“This agency has seen its share of turmoil and controversy,” Centers wrote in his cover letter, hoping “a level of stability and a sense of normalcy may be returned to (staff) in the future.”
Applications also came from Children Services Ombudsman William Morrison, and Butler County Job and Family Services Assistant Director Jerome Kearns.
One applicant who wanted to be an elected official is Terri King, a Madison Twp. attorney who ran for state House of Representatives last year. She is among three lawyers to apply for the job.
Out-of-county applicants include Jeffery Felton, whose resume says he was assistant director of children services at Hamilton County Job and Family Services. Pelton is one of three applicants who worked for Hamilton County.
The agency has indeed seen controversy in recent years. Fox quit his job as county commissioner and was hired to take over the agency after its governing board was abolished and director fired in the wake of the death of a child in foster care.
His tenure was controversial as well. One of the issues the next director will have to tackle is a policy Fox enacted that gave preference in adoption placement to married couples over single parents or same-sex couples.
Last week, the county prosecutor’s office issued an opinion that this policy is not allowed under state law. Commissioners had suspended the policy when learning of it in March.
Applicants for Butler County Children Services Director (and most recent or relevant experience listed on their applications):
- Jeffery Felton, former assistant director of children services of Hamilton County Job and Family Services.
- Bryson Thompson, corrections officer at the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office
- William Morrison, ombudsman at Butler County Children Services
- Terri King, Madison Twp. attorney and former juvenile court magistrate
- Ron Blake, private practice therapist, Saratoga, Wyoming
- Keith Gebhart, former pastor, First Church of God, Hamilton
- Debi Blackmon-Hull, counselor, Archdiocese of Cincinnati
- Casey Allen, community services coordinator, Area Agency on Aging, Dayton
- Brian Hall, family service worker, Butler County
- Steve Eleton, former manager at Fernald Environmental Management Project, Cincinnati
- Mary Ditmer, private practice attorney in Lewisburg specializing in juvenile law
- Robert Hoskins, Cincinnati attorney
- Kristine Koffler, former learning styles director of a boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina
- David Mazur, controller for Mazur Enterprises, Inc., Panama City, Florida
- Lesia Syrowatka, personal assistant and consultant in Dearborn, Michigan
- Elysem Jones, senior new media sales executive, Cox Ohio Publishing, Dayton
- Ogbazgy Asmerom, former social work supervisor, Hamilton County Job and Family Services
- Debra Cunningham, section chief of child support enforcement, Hamilton Count Job and Family Services
- Terrall Putnam, former health and safety director, Cargill, Dayton
- Sharon Bogan, executive director of Middletown Adolescent Leaders Achieve
- Alan Laney, director of training for Iraqi police and former captain in the Fairfield Twp. police department
- Monica Notestine, senior mortgage loan originator, Fifth Third Bank, Centerville
- Shirley Alsup, director of nursing co-op program University Hospital
- Jerome Kearns, assistant director of Butler County Job and Family Services
- James Sherman, vice president of Eastway Corporation, Dayton
- Timothy Derickson, special education teacher, Lakota Local School District (not the state representative)
- Maren Peebles, former academic dean, Miami-Jacobs Career College, Dayton
- Kristen Simonds, case manager, Talbert House and affiliates
- Joanne Elizabeth, medical social worker, St. Luke Hospital East
- Coleen Kelly, consultant, 4C’s, Cincinnati
- Jeff Centers, interim director, Butler County Children Services
- Charles Lindeman, private practice mental health therapist, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Andrew Baughey, children services investigator, Clermont County Children’s Protective Services
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