Lake County Councilman Jerome Prince, D-Gary, announced Tuesday he will run for county assessor in the 2014 Democratic primary.
Prince, 49, is a 1982 graduate of Lew Wallace High School. He has served in the Marine Corps, worked in real estate sales, served as a deputy Calumet Township assessor and eight years on the Gary City Council, before becoming a county councilman in 2008.
He said he has been involved in tax assessment for 19 years and expects to soon attain a state Level 3 assessor/appraiser certification.
He said in a written statement, he will introduce "the latest technologies available to efficiently and accurately determine (tax) values."
