GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — The Hall County clerk has been given the greenlight to promote her daughter-in-law to deputy county clerk.

On Tuesday, county clerk Marla Conley asked the Hall County Board of Supervisors for permission to appoint her daughter-in-law, Shanda Conley, to the position. The county’s nepotism policy requires such notification.

Shanda Conley has worked in the clerk’s office since 1999.

The position became available because longtime deputy clerk Pam Dubbs is taking a job at Hall County Jail. It left Shanda Conley as the only employee in the county clerk’s office to appoint.

The board voted 4-3 to allow Conley to be selected as deputy. But Marla Conley says that even though she has the board’s consent to appoint her daughter-in-law, she still needs time to think through her decision.