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ImageAs recommended by the County’s Advisory Board on Indigent Representation, County Administrator Joe Mareane has appointed long-time Ithaca attorney Wesley McDermott as Interim Supervising Attorney of the County’s Assigned Counsel Program.

The appointment, which has also been approved by the Tompkins County Bar Association and the New York State Office of Court Administration, is subject to confirmation by the Tompkins County Legislature.  The Legislature’s Public Safety Committee today recommended confirmation.  The confirmation vote is expected at the Legislature’s next meeting January 19.

The appointee will serve on a contract basis for a period not to exceed 120 days, while a search is conducted for a permanent Supervising Attorney to fill the vacancy left by the death earlier this week of Supervising Attorney Robert Stolp, who had led the County’s Assigned Counsel Program for more than 30 years.

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