Long-time bank executive Steve Wilson of Maineville has been recommended by a Republican screening committee to fill a vacant Ohio Senate seat.
Wilson would take the place of Shannon Jones, who left the 7th Senate District seat after winning a race for Warren County Commissioner in November.
He is the former chief executive and current chairman of LCNB Corp and LCNB National Bank.
The 7th District takes in all of Warren County and parts of Hamilton and Butler counties.
He was chosen by a seven-member panel of GOP senators. The screening committee met with five applicants.
The full 24-member Ohio Senate Republican Caucus will meet later this month to make Wilson's appointment official. He will fill out the remainder of Jones' term. He will have to run in 2018 if he wants to continue in the Ohio Senate.
Ohio GOP caucus spokesman John Fortney says Wilson will have to give up his seat on the Miami University board of trustees to take the Senate seat. Miami, a state school, is Wilson's alma mater.
0000017a-3b40-d913-abfe-bf44a4f90000Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU news team as the politics reporter and columnist in April 2012 , after 30 years of covering local, state and national politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. On this page, you will find his weekly column, Politically Speaking; the Monday morning political chats with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik and other news coverage by Wilkinson. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio gubernatorial race since 1974, as well as 16 presidential nominating conventions. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots, the Lucasville prison riot in 1993, the Air Canada plane crash at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983, and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. And, given his passion for baseball, you might even find some stories about the Cincinnati Reds here from time to time.
Warren County Bank Executive To Fill Vacant Ohio Senate Seat
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