Gov. John Hickenlooper’s chief of staff, attorney and former state lawmaker Doug Friednash, is leaving the administration and will be replaced by Patrick Meyers, an attorney and former owner of two Colorado-based fast food chains, the governor’s office announced Monday.

It’s the latest prominent departure as Hickenlooper, who faces term limits, prepares to leave office in a little over a year.

“We have so much still to do in the next 408 days,” Hickenlooper said in a statement. “Pat will bring a broad variety of experience to that work. I can’t wait to get started.”

Meyers takes over as chief of staff in December.

Friednash plans to return to work at powerhouse Denver-based lobbying and law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he was a partner before taking over as Hickenlooper’s chief of staff nearly three years ago.

“Doug is a longtime friend and colleague of mine,” Hickenlooper said in a statement. “These last few years he has been at the center of so much of our success. His judgment, his robust network of relationships, and his loyalty to me, and especially to Colorado, will be sorely missed.”

Friednash, who served two terms in the Colorado House of Representatives beginning in 1993, replaced Roxane White as Hickenlooper’s chief of staff at the beginning of the governor’s second term in 2015. He had a role in the Democrat’s reelection campaign and stood in for Hickenlooper’s Republican challenger, former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, during debate preparation. Friednash was Denver’s city attorney from 2011-2013 under Mayor Michael Hancock and worked as assistant attorney general in the Colorado Attorney General’s Criminal Enforcement Section in the mid-1990s.

Meyers has been a top-level executive and part owner of Consumer Capital Partners, the company that owns Quiznos and started Smashburger. He founded Quizno’s general counsel office and worked an attorney and eventually made partner at Moye, Giles, O’Keefe, Vermeire & Gorrell. A graduate of the University of Colorado Denver, Meyers received his law degree from the University of California Hastings School of Law and clerked with Colorado Supreme Court Justice William Erickson in the early 1990s. He is a Navy veteran, having served with the Submarine Service.