Taunya Jack Sworn in as new Campbell County Circuit Clerk

We are pleased to announce that Taunya Nolan Jack, 41, has been appointed Campbell Circuit Clerk and replaces Democrat Tom Calme, who has retired.

Jack, a California, Ky., Republican, was appointed by Campbell Circuit Judge Julie Reinhardt Ward and sworn into office at 11:30 a.m.

She will serve through 2010, but also plans to run for election to the office that year.

In a statement Jack said she pledges to "manage a professional, organized and efficient clerk's office with courtesy towards all officials and the public."

Jack is a graduate of Bishop Brossart High School and Northern Kentucky University. She and her husband, Jeffrey, have a son, Nolan.