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The Coweta County Board of Education
appointed Newnan attorney Graylin Ward to the school board’s 4th
district seat at its regular meeting on August 12. Ward – a resident of the Canongate neighborhood – will fulfill the unexpired term of Board member Brian Roy, which extends through the end of 2010. Roy resigned from the board in March because of a family move to a new home out-of-county. Ward is a Coweta County native, graduating from Newnan High before earning his B.A. in Criminal Justice from Howard University in Washington, D.C., and his J.D. from Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Ward has practiced law in Newnan since 1988, currently from his Ward Law Office on Broad Street in Newnan. He is married to Linette Ward, and the couple have four children, including one at Madras Middle School, two at Northgate High School, and their oldest – a Northgate alumnus – who attends Tennessee State University. Ward will represent the northeastern 4th district of the Coweta County School Board’s five district seats. There are also two at-large seats, elected by voters county-wide, which bring the board to seven members. The Coweta County Board of Education is obligated by its charter to appoint replacements to any unexpired terms of the seven-member board. Board members interview and nominate new members from among citizens who live in the appropriate district in the case of appointments to unexpired terms. The board voted 4 to 0, with 2 abstentions, to approve Ward’s nomination Tuesday night. Board members Harry Mullins, Winston Dowdell, Steve Bedrosian and Chairman Frank Farmer voted for Ward’s nomination, with Board Members Mike Sumner and Sue Brown abstaining. Ward begins his term immediately.  Newnan attorney and Canongate resident Graylin Ward was appointed August 12 to the Coweta County Board of Education, to serve the unexpired portion of former board member Brian Roy’s 2006-2010 term. |