A Butler County Community College board member is a candidate for county commissioner.

Kim Geyer, 52, of Adams Township announced today that she is seeking one of two Republican nominations in the May 19 primary.

Geyer, who also is county Commissioner Bill McCarrier’s administrative assistant, said her lengthy experience working with local, state and federal officials make her qualified for the post.

“I have 20 years of networking with state and federal officials,” she said.

Geyer said she began those efforts more than 20 years ago by traveling to Harrisburg to discuss issues affecting the Mars School District.

“I started advocating independently as a mother and as a citizen,” she said.

That lobbying resulted in her conducting a write-in campaign for a seat on the school board, which she won.

Geyer said she wants to use the skills she learned doing years of advocacy and collaboration as a county commissioner.

Since becoming McCarrier’s assistant, Geyer has continued working with state officials on behalf of the county.

She helped get special voting ballots in the 2012 presidential election for power company workers and emergency service volunteers so they could still vote and travel to New Jersey and help victims of Hurricane Sandy.

She also lobbied to keep Cranberry Township in a state senatorial district with other county municipalities rather than be lumped in with Allegheny County municipalities.

This is Geyer’s second run for commissioner. She lost in the 2011 primary.

She served three terms on the Mars School Board, four years as president, as well as vice president of the Midwestern Intermediate Unit board.

Geyer and her husband, Bob, own a commercial construction company.

She has two grown children.