Simpson Announces Retirement As Alleghany County Treasurer
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Low Moor, VA (March 15, 2019) - Alleghany County Treasurer Wanda H. Simpson has announced her upcoming retirement as of June 30, 2019, the end of the County’s fiscal year. Simpson was elected in 2011 as the County Treasurer.
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, she also worked for the Clifton Forge Commonwealth Attorney, Virginia Community Development Block Grant Program and the Alleghany County Commissioner of the Revenue, Valerie N. Bruffey.
Simpson stated, “I would like to thank everyone for their support through the years. 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 12/31/2019, 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 for 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. Teresa has been a Deputy Treasurer for twelve years.
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