Elizabeth "Betsy" Sundermann, a Hamilton County probate court magistrate, said she gets great satisfaction from helping other people.

That will be one of her primary duties in her new role as a member of Cincinnati City Council.

"I’ve always had jobs where I help people. My entire family has public-service kinds of jobs. That’s just kind of how I was raised,'' said the Hyde Park native and University of Cincinnati law school graduate.

Sundermann, who has been named to replace retiring Councilwoman Amy Murray, is expected to be sworn in at Wednesday's council meeting after receiving an endorsement from the Hamilton County GOP.

Murray, who is leaving city council for a job with the U.S. Department of Defense, selected Councilman Jeff Pastor and Vice-Chair Christopher Smitherman to find her replacement, in accordance with the city charter.

But both men elected to follow the county GOP's recommendation to appoint Sundermann, whose term will end Dec. 31, 2021.

Here are five things to know about Sundermann:

1. She worked as an assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor from 2003-2016 under prosecutors Mike Allen and Joe Deters.

2. She's been a Hamilton County probate court magistrate since May 2016.

3. Her father is retired judge Joseph Howard (Hal) Sundermann, who was a Hamilton County Municipal Court and Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas Judge in the 1980s and was elected to the Ohio First District Court of Appeals in 1995.

4. She has lived in East Price Hill since 2014 with her husband David Laing, and their two daughters, Natalie, 6, and Callie, 3. Laing is an attorney for the City of Cincinnati.

5. She has voted as a Republican in every election since at least 2014.