Newly-elected Mathews officials took their oaths of office before a packed house during a ceremony held last Wednesday in Mathews Circuit Court at Liberty Square. Judge Jeffrey Shaw (not pictured) swore in clerk of court Beth Brown, after which Brown swore in the remaining officials. Shown, from left, are school board member Mary Kathryn Diggs; supervisors Janice Phillips, Tim Doss, and Tom Bowen; commonwealth’s attorney Marie Walls; Sheriff April Edwards; Brown; and commissioner of the revenue Les Hall. School board members Dr. Mari Gibbs and Calvin Morgan, and Soil and Water Conservation District Directors Jean Howard and Richard Hicks were sworn in earlier in the month.
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