NATCHEZ, Miss. – Adams County supervisors plan to interview applicants for the county administrator job that was vacated when Stephanie Washington resigned last month to become Indianola’s city clerk.
About 20 people have applied for the job that offers an annual salary of $100,000 to be Adams County’s chief operating officer. The Board of Supervisors is to winnow the list to three people to interview. The board is scheduled to meet Thursday.
Washington resigned after just 14 months as Adams County’s administrator, a revolving-door job that’s had five occupants since 2020.
Washington was appointed by supervisors in January 2024 to coordinate and direct county government’s day-to-day operations and manage the budget. She filled a position that had been held on an interim basis for a year by Adams County Chancery Clerk Brandi Lewis, who took over the administrator’s job after the board ousted Angie King in January 2022. King was appointed in 2020, when Joe Murray retired after 10 years as county administrator.
Supervisors on Monday voted to appoint board attorney Scott Slover as interim county administrator for what board President Kevin Wilson said could just be two or three weeks before the board agrees on who to pick as a permanent administrator. Slover is to be paid an extra $800 a week in addition to what he earns as board attorney. Wilson wanted to appoint Lewis as interim administrator, but the board deadlocked on that motion.
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