Charlottesville City Attorney Jacob Stroman is retiring from local government after serving on the job for less than a year. Stroman was placed on administrative leave in April for an undisclosed personnel matter, but has decided not to come back to work.
In a press statement, Mayor Juandiego Wade said the city appreciates the work Stroman did during his short tenure, work which included presiding over the completion of the Cville Plans Together initiative and the adoption of a new zoning code.
“He has been exonerated from the claims that prompted his administrative leave,” Wade said, without going into details of what happened.
Stroman had been the choice of former interim City Manager Michael C. Rogers.
“The array of legal issues on which I was privileged to work were challenging, important to the continued prosperity of the City and, in many cases, cutting edge,” Stroman wrote in the release, adding he was grateful for the chance to represent Charlottesville.
The firm Sands Anderson will continue to serve the function of city attorney on an interim basis until a permanent replacement is selected. They performed that same role after Lisa Robertson resigned abruptly at the end of December 2022. Between April and the beginning of August, the firm was paid $169,057.97 according to Caroline Rice in the city’s communications office.
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