LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Two California Highway Patrol officers with Lake County connections have been promoted to sergeant.

The CHP’s Clear Lake Area office said Officer Joel Skeen was promoted to the rank of sergeant on Friday.

Officer Adam Garcia, a Lake County native who previously worked in the Clear Lake Area office and now works in the Ukiah Area office, was promoted to sergeant on the same day, the CHP reported.

“We are proud and excited for the both of them in achieving the distinguished rank of CHP Sergeant,” the Clear Lake Area office reported on its Facebook page.

The Clear Lake Area office also recently welcomed a new academy graduate, Officer Cameron Ramsey, who arrived in July.

Like Skeen and Garcia, Ramsey comes from the North Coast — he’s from Redwood Valley and the son of a CHP officer who works in the Ukiah Area office.