GSO city attorney Linda Miles announces her retirement.
Press release after the jump.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Pat Boswell
Phone: 373-2600
Or
373-4599
CITY ATTORNEY RETIRES AFTER THIRTY YEARS
GREENSBORO, NC (November 21, 2007) – City Attorney Linda Miles will retire from the City
effective November 30, 2007, after more than thirty
years of service. Miles was hired as an
Assistant City Attorney for the City of Greensboro in 1977 and rose
through the ranks to become head of the department in 1998. “It has been my true honor to be a member of
one of the best municipal administration teams in the state—or nation, for that
matter,” Miles said. She added, “It has also
been a pleasure to work with a Council which always did what was best for the
community.”
At the City
Manager’s request, Miles will work under contract from January through June,
after taking time off in December. This will
allow her to complete work on many ongoing City legal matters as well as help
staff with the transition to a new City Attorney. City Manager Mitchell Johnson said, “While I
am happy that a good friend is going to be able to enjoy retirement from her
responsibilities as the City Attorney while still in good health, I am going to
miss her professional support and deep knowledge of municipal law. She has done an extraordinary job as City
Attorney in the most difficult of circumstances.”
Miles graduated
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in
Psychology and then received her Juris
Doctorate from the UNC-CH School of Law, passing the bar after the second
year of law school. She worked as a
partner in a Salisbury, North Carolina, law firm for four
years until joining the City’s legal staff. Over the years, she has developed expertise in a wide range of municipal
law, particularly environmental law and personnel law. She is a member of the North Carolina and Guilford
County Bar Associations, chaired the Governmental and Public Officials Section
of the North Carolina Bar and served on the North Carolina League of
Municipalities Environmental Legislative Committee and the Environmental
Council of the North Carolina Bar. She
has published papers on environmental law and zoning, among other topics. Additionally, Miles’s knowledge of government
law has won her the highest legal rating from her peers in North Carolina.
As City Attorney,
Miles acts as senior corporate counsel, or legal advisor, to the City Manager,
the City Council, and department heads. She
supervises a staff of eight attorneys, four paralegals, and two
secretaries. Her “ethics, commitment to
the welfare of the organization, and long work hours have been of enormous
value to many City councils and several City Managers over the years,” Johnson
said. The City Attorney is responsible
for all litigation for and against the City government and serves as the
legislative liaison for the City. In
those capacities, Miles has been responsible for the successful litigation of
the $20 million MCI construction lawsuit, several class action environmental
lawsuits, the permitting of the Randleman Dam, and counseling approximately
twenty citizens’ boards and commissions, among many other accomplishments.
Miles is “looking
forward to new adventures and the time to enjoy the great gift of family and
friends.”
And Mitch got a raise. I thought he looked a little smug in the video clips on TV this morning of the meeting last night.
Posted by: Doug H | Nov 21, 2007 at 12:42 PM
No mention that the State Bar is considering an investigation of Miles?
Posted by: Billy The Blogging Poet | Nov 21, 2007 at 03:22 PM