The top auditor of Nevada state agencies said he was made to leave his role earlier this month after officials from Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office told him they wanted a “change in leadership.”
Warren Lowman had worked within the state’s Division of Internal Audits for the past 16 1/2 years and has served as its administrator for the last five years. His departure was not publicly announced by the state, and he is still listed as the administrator on the internal audit staff website as of Tuesday afternoon.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Lowman declined to discuss specific details about the audits he’d been working on but said the Jan. 2 request to step down came as a “surprise.”
“I was never given any indication that they weren’t happy with my performance,” Lowman told The Nevada Independent. “We had had several executive branch audit committee meetings, and there was never any feedback on the substance of those in a negative way. I’ve been doing what I’ve always been doing.”
He said he had a previous discussion with a member of the governor’s staff that he felt may have bordered on ageism (Lowman is 66), but Lowman didn’t offer any more details about the…
