The interim county attorney said she does not expect to return to her current job after not being given “the opportunity to even ask to be reappointed.”
Lani Skipper, who has served as county attorney or interim county attorney since January 2015, said politics likely played a role in the decision after she quietly supported the campaigns of the three incumbents who lost re-election bids in 2018.
“I have been told on several occasions, but as early as the day after the elections, that I would not be appointed,” Skipper said. “Based upon that timing, I believe it was a political decision.”
Skipper has worked on a contract basis as interim county attorney since March 2017 following her departure from a law firm which formerly represented the government for an estimated three decades.
The position oversees a variety of functions — from reviewing contracts to being county commissioners’ chief source for legal opinions and what the county code of ordinances contains.
She said it was her “understanding” the board of commissioners intended to appoint a new county attorney “and it will not be me.”
“I do not plan to attend the (Tuesday) meeting as a result,” Skipper said.
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