COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has promoted two veteran Ohio State Highway Patrol officers to superintendent and assistant superintendent and named a new director of the state’s lottery commission.
The new Republican governor announced his latest appointments Thursday.
He named Lieutenant Colonel Richard Fambro (above, left), a 30-year patrol veteran, the first African-Americans superintendent in the patrol’s 86-year history, effective March 16. Fambro will replace Colonel Paul Pride, who is retiring.
Major Marla Gaskill (right) will succeed Fambro as assistant superintendent.
Both will advance a rank.
DeWine said both share his vision for putting “families at the forefront of everything we do.”