Greene County swears-in first female county engineer today

Goff succeeds Bob Geyer after he retired in May. The Greene County Republican Party Central Committee voted in July to make Goff the permanent replacement.

Goff, of Fairborn, was the only candidate considered for the role by the GOP committee.

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Goff is the third woman county engineer currently working in Ohio, joining Melissa Miller of Jackson County and Amy Zwick of Monroe County.

Goff earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati and a master’s in business administration from Wright State University.

She started her career working for the engineer’s office in Logan County in the early 1990s. She previously worked as the village administrator for Jackson Center before working for the Montgomery County Engineer’s Office since February 2012.

“I will continue to build on what Bob Geyer has done over his 22 years to maintain and improve Greene County’s infrastructure for the residents and drivers in Greene County with our awesome staff and crews,” Goff said.

Goff transitioned into the position as Geyer remained in office until the end of May.

During the transition, Geyer said at a GOP luncheon at the party’s headquarters on East Main Street in Xenia that “anybody who thinks they can do this alone, they’re fooling themselves. You got to have good people.”

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“Technology has really changed the face of the office … Back in the mid-’70s there were 70 people working in the highway department. We now have 26,” Geyer said. “The first thing I did was come in and say ‘what’s the most important thing for this office to do?’ That was snow and ice, so I crewed the department to what I thought it should be.”

The county engineer’s office handles more than just maintenance of roads and bridges. The office is responsible for creating the tax maps; platting of properties; and approving land surveys, which requires the Greene County engineer to have a surveyor’s license as well as an engineer’s license.

To retain the position, Goff will need to run for office in the November 2020 election.