Lawrence County Salary Board approves temporary training post, multiple pay adjustments and solicitor base-rate updates

The Lawrence County Salary Board on April 6 approved a package of personnel and pay-rate changes affecting the courts and several county row offices.

President Judge Jay Cox asked the board to create a temporary judicial executive secretary trainee position so his new hire could overlap with a longtime secretary’s departure. "May 1st, she is that will be her last day in the building," Jay Cox said, explaining the court wanted two weeks of on‑the‑job training. The board approved the temporary position at a base rate of $40,000 and the resolution states the position will be eliminated once vacated.

The board also approved a $3,800 retroactive increase (effective Jan. 1, 2026) for the domestic relations office’s locate officer; Judge Cox said the position is funded from the domestic relations incentive fund and not from the county general fund. The salary board set a new base rate of $62,500 for a deputy director in the adult probation office (with language indicating the base would be set at $60,000 after the position is filled) and established a base rate of $55,000 for the office’s IP coordinator, described in…