Lora L. Manon has been active in the Association of Inspectors General since 2008. A member of the AIG Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, Lora currently serves as the elected Secretary of the AIG, her 15th year in that position. Ms. Manon is a Certified Inspector General™, and she has been commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel.
Ms. Manon is currently employed as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Hancock County, Ohio, in the adult criminal division. In the past, she has served as Assistant Law Director for the Cities of Toledo and Defiance, Ohio, and as an assistant prosecutor in Hancock, Fairfield, and Hardin Counties, Ohio. In 1996, she was elected Hardin County Prosecuting Attorney, the first woman to hold that particular county office and one of the first seven women to hold the position of the elected county prosecutor in the state of Ohio.
Lora continues to devote her career of more than 35 years to public service. She is the former Chief Legal Counsel for the Office of the Ohio Inspector General, where she served from 2005 – 2011. In that position, she drafted legislation that expanded the Office’s statutory authority, creating dedicated deputy inspectors general for various state agencies and she assisted in the preparation of legislation that allowed the OIG to conduct investigations of certain other state elected officials. She prepared ethics training sessions for both in-house and interagency presentation. While working in the Ohio IG Office, Lora participated in the largest multi-agency task force investigation of corruption, waste, fraud and abuse in Ohio’s history. She received an award for her efforts in that case from the Ohio Prosecuting Attorney’s Association for her work as part of the Outstanding Prosecution Team in multiple cases stemming from that investigation.
