Charles Oddo was re-elected as chairman of the Fayette County Board of Commissioners Thursday night in a 3-2 vote. Commissioner Steve Brown nominated Randy Ognio for the seat, but Ognio did not receive a majority.

However, Ognio was unanimously named vice chairman.

Before convening the first session of the year, the commissioners dedicated the 2015 official portrait of last year’s board in honor of District 5 representative Pota Coston, who died last summer after only six months in office.

Coston’s husband and son were present for the ceremony.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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