After going seven months without one, Doña Ana County has a new elections supervisor.
Bob L. Bartlesmeyer was recently hired for the job, the county announced this morning in a news release. The position has been vacant since County Clerk Lynn Ellins took office in January.
Bartelsmeyer has more than 25 years of experience in elections management, including 22 years as the county clerk in Lawrence County, Missouri — a position to which he was elected at age 21 and then held for six consecutive terms. Most recently, he served as absentee ballot coordinator in Palm Beach County, Fla., according to a news release from the county.
He has attended Oral Roberts University and Missouri State University.
Bartelsmeyer was introduced to workers in the Doña Ana County Government Center on Tuesday by Ellins, who praised his newest employee as driven, motivated and highly qualified for the position, the release states.
Ellins was elections supervisor when he decided to challenge then-Clerk Rita Torres in the Democratic primary last year. He won the primary and general elections.
Ellins announced in November that Mario Jimenez, who had run the primary and general elections in 2008 because Ellins was a candidate, would be his chief deputy clerk.
A prior version of this posting incorrectly said Bartelsmeyer worked in Lawrence, Kansas.