By Kathryn Reed

Lake Tahoe Community College’s next vice president of business services will have some adjustments to make when she starts her job, but learning to handle the cold won’t be one of them.

Susan Niehoff has been a budget finance officer at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for the last six years.

Susan Niehoff

The LTCC board of educations at a special meeting Monday morning unanimously picked Niehoff over the other finalist.

This is the second go-round of applicants for this position. The board said no one in the first batch met the needs of the two-year school.

Guy Lease, who had the job when the college opened 30 years ago and then rose to be president of the college before retiring in 2007, has been the interim VP for most of this calendar year. He will finish his duties this month.

Niehoff will come on board in January.

Niehoff has an MBA from UNLV.

She has been at the university level for the last 20 years. Previous positions include cost analyst and assistant to the controller/treasurer of Northwestern University, a budget officer at UNLV, and the business operations manager and chief financial officer for the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law.

In Minnesota, the finance department is much larger than at LTCC. She was one of a handful of people with the same title. At LTCC, Niehoff will just have President Paul Killpatrick over her.