TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An aide to Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle is taking a job with U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma.

Wagle’s office announced Monday that Aly Beley would be stepping down as the Kansas lawmaker’s communications director at the end of this month.

Beley joined Wagle’s staff in December 2012, after GOP state senators designated the Wichita Republican as Senate president.

Before that, Beley served as communications director for then-Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal and as an aide to Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes. She also was an aide to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback during his first campaign for Kansas governor in 2010.

Lankford is Republican who won his seat in the U.S. Senate last year.