Webster County Auditor Doreen Pliner will retire at the end of this year after eight years in the office.

Democrat Krystal Lloyd and Republican Shaunna Abrams are vying to replace her.

Here is an introduction to the two candidates.

Krystal Lloyd

She is the drainage and real estate clerk in the Webster County Auditor’s Office.

She began working for the county’s Child Support Recovery Office in January 2015. She transferred to the Auditor’s Office in 2017 to become the drainage clerk. Since then, she has taken on additional responsibilities as real estate clerk. She also works with elections, accounts payable, tax increment financing and valuations.

Lloyd is certified through the Iowa State Association of Counties.

The candidate grew up near Harcourt. She is a graduate of Prairie Valley High School who earned a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University in Ames. She is pursuing an accounting degree through online classes offered by Western Governors University.

She is a member of the Prairie Valley Area Soccer Association board and has served in many capacities in her church.

Lloyd and her husband, Dustin, have three sons, They live near Gowrie.

Shaunna Abrams

Abrams started working in the financial industry in 1990 as a teller at the former City-County-School Frontier Credit Union. She went on to positions in lending and insurance. She worked in customer service at the former First Federal Bank.

She left banking to do human resources and payroll work at The Marian Home and Village. Then she worked for H & R Block before returning to banking. Today, she is the branch manager of United Bank of Iowa in Fort Dodge.

She is a member of the Fort Dodge Noon Rotary Club and the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance Ambassadors.

She is a native of Fort Dodge and a graduate of Fort Dodge Senior High School.

She and her husband, Joe, live in Fort Dodge. They have four children and eight grandchildren.