Jim Zehringer is the Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, who has served in the cabinet of Ohio Governor John Kasich, since 2011. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011, and as a Mercer County Commissioner from 2002 to 2007. He is a farmer by trade.Zehringer is a graduate of Fort Recovery High School, and still resides in Fort Recovery today. A former owner of a poultry and fish farm, Zehringer has made a career out of agriculture.