County board accepting applications for Shope’s replacement
by Kelly Fisher | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune
Pinal County has shed more light on the Board of Supervisors’ upcoming process of appointing a new justice of the peace to replace Tom Shope.Shope, who served over the Florence Justice Court, Precinct 1, since January 2015 after being elected the previous November, recently announced that he would resign from his justice job to return to his family grocery business, Shope’s IGA in Coolidge.
His resignation is effective Jan. 3.
County spokesman Joe Pyritz confirmed at that time that the Board of Supervisors would hold an executive session to determine the appropriate course of action in finding a replacement for Shope, who made the decision to drop out two years into his four-year term.
