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In with the new elected officials
Sheriff, judges, chairman, others sworn in
W 122916 SWEARING IN 01
Retiring Bulloch County Probate Judge Lee DeLoach, right, administers the oath of office to incoming Probate Judge Lorna DeLoach as husband Corbett holds the Bible Thursday at the Bulloch County Courthouse.
There’s a new sheriff in Bulloch County – and two new judges, a new Board of Commissioners chairman, two new commissioners, two new Board of Education members and a new State Court chief solicitor. Officially, their terms begin when the clock tolls midnight Saturday for the start of 2017. But preparations long underway, including training for eight of the nine newly elected officials, culminated in the swearing-in ritual Thursday morning at the Bulloch County Courthouse.
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