Stockbridge City Clerk Stephanie Tigner resigned abruptly Nov. 4 after less than a year on the job.
City Manager Michael Harris said Tigner notified him by e-mail that her resignation was effectively immediately and left within minutes after doing so. Harris said that to his knowledge there were no outstanding complaints from anyone on the City Council regarding her work.
Tigner took office just as abruptly in the middle of the first meeting in January, when incoming city clerk Rhonda Blackmon was relieved of her duties and escorted from the council chambers.
Blackmon, who is white, filed a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission March 27, alleging that she was removed by a majority-black council at a meeting in violation of Georgia law. She also charged that Tigner, who is black, had been terminated from her job with the city just two days prior.
Blackmon’s complaint has not yet been resolved.
Deputy city clerk Randi Rainey will fill Tigner’s role for now, and city officials hope to have a permanent clerk named by the beginning of 2015.
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