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Greensboro city attorney retires effective immediately

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Amy Diaz
Published July 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM EDT
Chuck Watts
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Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts is retiring effective immediately.

Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts announced his retirement Wednesday effective immediately.

Watts worked for the city for six years, and previously served as general counsel for the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

In a press release, Mayor Nancy Vaughan said Watts was “instrumental” in leading the city through the COVID-19 pandemic, and other challenges.

The city council will announce his interim replacement in the coming days.

The news comes just days after Guilford County Manager Michael Halford announced his retirement.
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Amy Diaz
Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.
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