The Shadow
Alleghany County Treasurer Wanda H. Simpson has announced her upcoming retirement, effective as of June 30, the end of the county’s fiscal year.
Simpson was elected Alleghany County treasurer in 2011.
She was first elected to public office in 1988 as the Clifton Forge city treasurer upon the retirement of Robert B. Deaton and served in that capacity until the city reverted to a town in July 2001.
During her 38 years of public service, Simpson also worked for the Clifton Forge commonwealth’s attorney, the Virginia Community Development Block Grant program and Alleghany County Commissioner of the Revenue Valerie N. Bruffey.
“I?would like to thank everyone for their support through the years,”?Simpson said. “I?couldn’t have done it without you, my friends and my family.”
Simpson was born and raised in Alleghany County, the daughter of the late Charles T. and Mary Persinger Harlow. She will continue to reside in the area with her husband, Glen Ray “Jack”?Simpson, and near her children, Jennifer and Matt Smith, Joe Simpson and Haley Glover and granddaughter Harper Grace Smith.
The treasurer is a constitutional officer elected to a four-year term. Simpson’s term would have ended on Dec. 31, 2019, but due to her retirement, an interim treasurer must be appointed to fill her term.
According to state law, the highest-ranking deputy treasurer, if qualified to vote and hold the position, could be appointed to serve as an interim treasurer.
In this case, that would be Teresa S. Brown, formerly of Boiling Springs and now a resident of Clifton Forge.
Brown has been a deputy treasurer for 12 years.
