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Gray Wilson sworn in as Forsyth County commissioner

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published July 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM EDT
Wilson, accompanied by wife Cheryl McCraney Wilson, is sworn in as a Forsyth County commissioner on July 18, 2024. Screenshot courtesy of Forsyth County.

Wilson, accompanied by wife Cheryl McCraney Wilson, is sworn in as a Forsyth County commissioner on July 18, 2024. Screenshot courtesy of Forsyth County.

The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners has a new member. Republican Gray Wilson was sworn in Thursday during a ceremony at the Forsyth County Government Center.

The Army veteran has also been a lawyer for more than 40 years. 

Wilson said that experience taught him the value of being a persuader over being a bomb thrower.

“There are rational and intelligent ways to arrive at decisions that are for the betterment of this community," he says. "And that’s what I’m dedicated to trying to do in this instance.”

The executive committee of the Forsyth County Republican Party chose Wilson to fill the seat that was vacated in June by the retirement of Dave Plyler. The term ends in December.

Wilson is also one of six candidates running for three seats in the board’s District B.
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Politics & Government Gray WilsonDave PlylerForsyth County Commissioners
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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