Roswell mayor fights term limit suit

Roswell Mayor Jere Wood pushed for term limits for his office. He just didn’t want them to apply retroactively.

Wood is fighting a lawsuit that claims his 18 years at the city’s helm violate the term limits he championed. He has asked city council to urge legislators to rewrite the city’s charter, clarifying that they didn’t mean for the limits, passed in 2010, to apply from his first term.

A Thursday ruling by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig L. Schwall, Sr. allowed the suit to go forward and said Wood would be required “to answer by what right you claim to hold the Office of Mayor of the City of Roswell.”