CAMERON—Milam County commissioners Monday accepted the resignation of County Clerk Barbara Vansa and named Deputy Clerk Jodi Morgan her successor.
Vansa’s resignation is effective Tuesday and Morgan—who is unopposed for the office in the November general election—will be sworn in that day.
A reception for Vansa, who earlier announced she was retiring after 33 years in the county clerk’s office, is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday at the office, 107 West Main.
Cake and punch will be served and the public is invited.
Vansa succeeded LaVerne Soefje as county clerk in 2007. Milam has had only five county clerks in the past 90 years.
Homer Nabours served in the position from 1928 to 1958. He was succeeded by Wayne Wieser who served from 1958 to 1986.
Wieser died in office and his widow, Willie Mae Wieser, served from 1986 to 1991.
Soefje was county clerk from 1991 to 2007 and Vansa from 2007 until the present time.
OUT-OF-POCKET—Also Monday, commissioners okayed covering Dr. Stuart Yoffe in the pending lawsuit by a former jail inmate.
County employees, with the sheriff’s and prosecutor’s office, are being defended by Allison, Bass & Magee LLP of Austin as part of the county’s insurance coverage.
Dr. Yoffe, in private practice and not a county employee, was also named as a defendant in the suit.
County Judge Dave Barkemeyer said defending Dr. Yoffe will be an “out of pocket” expense for the county.
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