Add a component lead status to a workflow?

[Daniel Batista]

Is there a way to add the component lead as a status in a workflow?  If I create a workflow for a Story, once the Story is approved, I would like to transition the story issue over the the component lead on the issue.

[GabrielleJ]

You can add the status manually, but there is no feature to do that automatically in JIRA.

The question is why though? Maybe there is another way to get what you want here