Tasha Logan Ford Hired As First Female City Manager Of High Point

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published May 6, 2021 at 5:26 PM EDT

Tasha Logan Ford. Image courtesy of the City of Winston-Salem.

Tasha Logan Ford is poised to make history as High Point's new city manager.

Ford has been an assistant city manager in Winston-Salem since 2018. She's scheduled to take over High Point's top management post in July.

She'll be the first woman and first Black city manager in High Point's history.

The High Point City Council unanimously approved of hiring Ford during a meeting this week following a national search. Ford went to undergraduate school at UNC Greensboro and has a Master's in Public Administration from North Carolina State University.

The position has been open for almost a year. Former manager Greg Demko left last May after five years on the job.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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