Longtime county employees to retire
WAYNESBURG – Two longtime Greene County employees will be leaving within the next several months.
Linda Chambers, first assistant district attorney, will retire effective Dec. 12, and H. John Frazier, chief assessor, will retire Feb. 16, 2015.
The retirements were acknowledged Thursday at the meeting of the county salary board. Chambers joined the DA’s office in 2001 and became first assistant in 2002.
She got her start working as a union miner for Gateway coal mine and worked her way up to be the safety officer, ensuring the state and federal safety regulations were being enforced.
She enrolled in the evening division of Duquesne Law School, attending classes after putting in her shift at the mine. In 1989, she graduated in the top part of her class and passed the bar later that year.
Prior to opening her office in Greene, she worked for law firms in Washington and Allegheny counties. Having a private practice for more than 20 years, Chambers represented the citizens of Greene County in a variety of cases.
Chambers said when her retirement kicks in, she will quit practicing law. “I have a few cases to complete in my private practice and I may do some appellate work in the district attorney’s office if they need me,” she said.
“After that, I am going to paint pictures. I was an art major in college,” she said.
Frazier, a 1977 summa cum laude graduate from California State College, began in the county’s assessment department in 1978 as a field assessor.
He later became a coal assessor and, in 1999, he was promoted to chief assessor.
In other business, the salary board:
• Hired Gina Robinson as a temporary part-time tip staff for the courts at $67.51 a day.
• Promoted Crystal Simmons as manager of the Greene County Industrial Development Authority at $35,000 a year.
• Approved a change for Barbara Stowinsky from regular part-time to regular full-time caseworker 2 in Children and Youth Services.
• Accepted the resignations of Kyrstyn Atleson as a part-time corrections officer at the county jail and Anthony Vojtas as a security officer with the sheriff’s department.