Kevin J. Lanier is now the fire chief of Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services, the county announced.
What’s Happening: Lanier takes over the department after 25 years working for Cherokee County.
What’s Important: Lanier replaces Eddie Robinson, who is retiring. The county described Robinson’s tenure as spanning decades but did not give a specific number of years.
The Path Forward: Lanier brings more than two decades of experience inside the same department he now leads.
B.T. Clark is the Publisher of The Georgia Sun and author of Principles Are Like Pants… You Ought to Have Some. Over two decades in journalism, he has served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc., earning multiple awards along the way. His work has appeared in newspapers across the state, including The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal.





