Deters hits the five-year mark as county auditor

Working in county government runs in the family for Grundy County Auditor Rhonda Deters—her mother is a former deputy auditor, her uncle was a supervisor and her great uncle, Wilbur Rust, served as county auditor, all in Grundy County. After 34 years of working at a law firm in Eldora as a certified legal assistant specialist, she was approached about taking over for retiring auditor Mary Schmidt in the summer of 2011 and jumped at the opportunity. As she recently celebrated her five-year anniversary of working for the county, The Grundy Register caught up with Deters to discuss what her job entails, the joys and challenges that come with it and what it’s like to run for re-election.
           
“This is a continual learning process, and the laws change all of the time,” she said. “There are always new things to be implementing.”
           
The offer to work for the county came at a perfect time for Deters, a lifelong Grundy County resident: she was looking to find a job in Grundy Center, where her parents reside, and as previously mentioned, being an auditor ran in the family. She worked part-time through the month of June as she learned the job, and on July 1, 2011 (the beginning of a new fiscal year), the Board of Supervisors formally appointed her as the full-time auditor.
 
Read more in this week's Grundy Register.