County Officials Are Sworn In

MACKIE BOBRIN

County officials are sworn in

By SUSAN OPPAT JAN 0 5 1993

NEWS.STAFF REPORTER

The six Washtenaw County officials elected to office in November were sworn in Monday at the county courthouse to a standing-room-only crowd.

Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie was sworn in by his father-in-law and retired state Court of Appeals Judge William Beasley. Mackie spent most of his remarks thanking family and friends for their support, including his children, Jane and Sam, “because you two inspire me to do better, to be better.”

“And 1 plan with my staff to do great things,” Mackie promised. “I will never forget who I work for, who it is that I serve.”

The other five officials were sworn in by Chief Circuit Judge Melinda Morris.

Re-elected Drain Commissioner Janis Bobrin drew laughter when she gestured at the rain falling steadily outside and announced, “I still want the job, it’s a great job, even after a day like this, when every river in the county will hit the flood level by morning.”

Chief 14A District Judge Kenneth Bronson, Sheriff Ronald J. Schebil, Clerk-Register of Deeds Peggy Haines, and Treasurer Nancy Davis were the others who took the oath of office Monday.

The name of a newly hired assistant prosecutor also was announced by Mackie Monday.

Rodrick K. Green, formerly a criminal defense attorney in private practice in Detroit and Ann Arbor, started work Monday along with four other new assistants.

Green, 41, graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1985 and worked for the last five years in Ann Arbor, the last two with the Model Cities Legal Service for low-income clients.

He made the switch to prosecution, Green said, because “it is an opportunity to gain insight and broaden my perspective of the criminal justice system, and I wanted to take advantage of it.”

Green became the second minority hired by Mackie, in what was previously an all-white office.