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PORT ANGELES – The Port Angeles City Council has picked a social worker and program director of the local ReDiscovery program to fill a vacancy on the council.

After a ranked choice ballot Tuesday night, Amy Miller came out as the preferred candidate among three finalists. She has a long association with the city through the ReDiscovery program which links social workers with first-responders for certain crisis calls.

State Patrol Trooper and Iraq war veteran Mark Hodgson and downtown merchant and member of the planning commission Andrew Scwhab were the other two finalists.

Miller fills the vacancy left when Mike French resigned to become a Clallam County Commissioner. The position will go before voters in the fall and then again in two years when the position would normally be up for re-election.