The new executive director of Summit County Children Services will be Cassandra Holtzmann, the executive director of Crawford County Job and Family Services.
Holtzmann was officially named as the new head of the agency at a special board of trustees meeting Monday.
She succeeds Julie Barnes, who is retiring as executive director at the end of April after leading the agency for more than eight years. Holtzmann will officially begin in the position by no later than May 1, with a two-year contract and $150,000 annual salary.
In Crawford County, which is in north central Ohio, Holtzmann led a quadruple-combined agency that includes human services, Ohio Means Jobs, child support enforcement and children services. Before becoming director there in 2017, she was director of the Ashland County Department of Job and Family Services from 2011 to 2016.
Holtzmann is a labor and employment law specialist, certified mediator and certified labor relations professional who has served as an adjunct professor for Ashland University, where she has taught family and community mediation.
Holtzmann received her bachelor’s degree from Cleveland State University in 1989 and her law degree from the University of Akron in 1999. She was licensed to practice law in Ohio in 1999 and in the Northern District of Ohio Federal Court in 2002.
"Her years of experience in and passion for child welfare is exactly what we need to further the great work that this agency provides to our community. Cassandra is...
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