New Face for a New Year

Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
Edith Moore wins commission seat; Justin Ford loses, but it ain't over yet...by Jackson Baker...Much has been made of the fact that there is suddenly to be a gap in the consecutive service on the Shelby County Commission of members surnamed Ford. Certainly that was the immediate consequence of Monday's vote on a successor to Joe Ford, who was sworn in as interim county mayor earlier this month. The surprise victory of the unheralded Edith Moore on the sixth ballot over interim mayor Ford's son Justin Ford broke a connection that had existed since…


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