CLAYTON • Another top adviser to St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger has resigned.

Lance LeComb signed with Stenger’s team on Oct. 10, drawing $130,000 a year as a “senior policy advisor for administration and strategic initiatives.” On Tuesday, he resigned with a one-sentence letter to Stenger saying he was resigning “due to the fact that I am pursuing other employment opportunities.”

Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District spokesman Lance LeComb talks about raw sewage during a meeting with Arnold-area residents in 2016. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com Robert Cohen • P-D ▲

He is the second Stenger adviser to leave in recent days. Bill Miller, who started in December 2017 as Stenger’s chief of staff, resigned on Friday, saying he had only planned to stay through the general election in November, and that he was pursuing other employment.

LeComb’s name was included in a March 21 federal grand jury subpoena served on St. Louis County government.

The subpoena sought LeComb’s and four other employees’ personnel files, as well as records on Stenger’s communications and all county contracts and grants during his tenure as county executive.

LeComb said in an email that he was not making any public statements beyond his letter.

Prior to joining Stenger’s cabinet, LeComb had worked for 15 years as the public information manager for Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District.

LeComb is the husband of Mary Ellen Ponder, former chief of staff to St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and now a lobbyist for financier Rex Sinquefield.