NORTH VERNON — A North Vernon attorney will be a fresh face in the Indiana House of Representatives and also will become one of Indiana’s youngest lawmakers.
J. Alex Zimmerman, 30, was selected as the new representative for Indiana House District 67 on Monday. Zimmerman was one of four candidates, and he was chosen at a caucus of district Republicans in Ripley County to succeed retired Rep. Randy Frye, R-Greensburg. Despite a four-way race, Zimmerman won the caucus with a majority of votes on the first ballot.
“I’m ready to get to work on behalf of House District 67, and I’m honored and humbled to have been selected in the caucus,” Zimmerman said in a telephone interview Wednesday. District 67 includes most of Jennings County, a portion of Decatur County, and all of Ripley and Jefferson counties. The district includes the county seat communities of North Vernon, Madison and Versailles.
A Delaware County native, Zimmerman is no stranger to the corridors of power in the Indiana Statehouse.
Before opening his general law practice in North Vernon in 2020, he worked nearly six years on the Indiana State Senate Republican majority staff. He is a Franklin College graduate and a 2020 graduate of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
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