Lisa Eliason ran unopposed for the law director position, gaining 3,581 votes. She has held the position in Athens for the past eight years.
The law director is responsible for giving legal advice to city officials and supporting and defending Athens lawfully.
While it's Eliason's last term running for law director, she said she is confident the current assistant law director, Jesse Branner Hittle, will be a beneficial asset to the future law director.
"I want to make sure that (Branner Hittle) knows everything that I know so that the next person coming in as law director who will have to run it for years will be able to have somebody here who can help with the transition," Eliason said.
Each year, Eliason takes on a project to make the law department and, ultimately, Athens better. Her goal for this next year is to organize 40 years of files to find anything the office needs in a faster manner.
"Although it's organized, we're going to go back through it and go through all the files. We have about 40 years' worth of files for this office," Eliason said. "We in the past went through all those files, and we digitized the list of files, so we can find anything we need."
In Eliason's time as law director, she has updated her office and digitized everything by integrating Matrix.
When she first started as a prosecutor in 1990, she amended marijuana charges to disorderly conduct. In 1998, she brought a diversion program to the Municipal Court so underage college students would not end up with a criminal record for possession of alcohol.
