Timothy J. Farmer of Perry has been hired as Greene County assistant attorney. He first day on the job is Dec. 19. Farmer is familiar with Greene County, having worked as attorney for the defense on several Greene County cases.
Farmer graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law. He is employed at Trey Suchar Law’s Perry office. Trey Suchar Law specializes in immigration law, and Farmer speaks Spanish.
He learned Spanish while serving a two-year mission in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington, and then worked in human resources before attending law school.
His contract with Greene County is for 15 hours a week at an annual salary of $38,000. He plans to be in Greene County Wednesdays and Fridays. He moves into the assistant county attorney position as Thomas Laehn moves into that office January 1. Longtime county attorney Nicola Martino is retiring.
According to Laehn, Farmer will begin working primarily with magistrate cases.
Farmer is the county’s second assistant county attorney. When Laehn was hired as assistant during the summer of 2017 it was a fulltime position. Much of the work of the attorney’s office, including case filing and scheduling, is now done using the ProLaw computer program, giving Laehn confidence the workload of the entire office can be done with 1-1/2 positions rather than two fulltime positions.
