Iowa State has chosen its next dean of students.

Dione Somerville was officially named Friday for the position, which is currently held in interim by vice president of student affairs Mimi Benjamin.

According to the ISU News Service, Somerville will officially take up the position some time in January.

Somerville’s previous post was as director of enrollment services and registrar at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, since 2001.

ISU Vice President of Student Affairs Thomas Hill said Somerville’s variety of experience make an outstanding choice for dean of students, according to a press release.

“She has worked at four-year and two-year institutions of our students who arrive from community colleges,” Hill said.

In addition to her office at Lorain, Somerville served as director of student affairs and services at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine in Cleveland and as director of student activities and assistant director of campus programming for Ursuline College in Ohio.

Somerville achieved her bachelor’s degree from Ohio Northern University, a master’s in college student personnel at Bowing Green State University and a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia.

For more information, see Monday’s Daily.