LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Office of Education has named its new assistant superintendent.

The Office of Education announced this week that Cynthia Lenners will be taking on the role as of July 1.

She will succeed April Leiferman, who has been hired as the new superintendent of the Lakeport Unified School District.

District officials said Lenners has been in education for more than 35 years.

For the past two years she has served Lake County students as the Lake County Office of Education’s senior director of school and district support services.

She started her career as a science and social studies teacher in the Salinas Union High School District, where she also served as an education specialist.

Lenners later worked as an educational consultant, focusing on school and district accountability and reform.

Prior to coming to the Lake County Office of Education, Lenners served as a teacher and principal in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District.

She has single subject credentials in science, history/social studies and physical education; special education and administrative services credentials, and she is also a language development specialist.

“We could not have asked for a better educator or more dedicated person to take the helm of LCOE’s Ed Services,” said Ryan Mahan, director of human resources and operations.