The Tallahassee City Commission will conduct interviews for the City Attorney position on Tuesday, Jan. 16, beginning at 2 p.m.
The Commission will interview Amy Toman, Susan Dawson, Clayton Knowles and Ray Poole.
The interviews will all be held in the Tallahassee Room on the second floor of City Hall, 300 South Adams Street.
Tallahassee City Attorney Cassandra Jackson stepped down from the position last November.
Dawson has worked in public law since 2002. Her experience includes time with the Florida Department of Management Services, Office of Insurance Regulation and Florida Supreme Court. She has spent the past five years as Attorney for the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency, the agency responsible for managing sales tax revenue in Tallahassee and Leon County.
Toman has served as acting City Attorney. With over 30 years of legal experience, Toman has spent the past six years as Tallahassee Deputy City Attorney. Prior to her employment with the city, Toman spent over five years as Executive Director of the Florida Elections Commission.
Poole has worked as the chief legal counsel for Duval County School District for two years. Before his current job, he was chief of Legal Services for the Nassau County School District. Poole has also worked in the public sector with the law firm Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete’s Jacksonville office.
Knowles has been the Gadsden County Board of County Commissioner’s attorney since 2020. Knowles graduated law school in 2012. Before working for Gadsden County, he spent time with the law firms Knowles & Randolph, P.A and the Pittman Law Group.
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what a sad state of affairs, the clown circus must go on.
Dawson would be a horrible hire. Detrimental to the progress of our city. She openly rejects Florida’s Sunshine Laws and bullies and talks down to those who disagree with her. #AnyoneButDawson
It’s not who is “better qualified” but who knows where the sketons are hidden within BP. Very likely, Dawson goes to the City and Toman demoted to BP, only to serve for a short time then retire.
Susan Dawson – isn’t she the same person who “…has spent the past five years as Attorney for the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency?” Also the same person some members of Blueprint have complained about and have openly voiced criticism of?
Let’s see how this might play out. Move Dawson over to fill the open City Attorney position to get her out of Blueprint. City Attorney open position filled.
Move Toman over to Blueprint so she won’t be mad about being passed over for the promotion to City Attorney. Blueprint attorney problem solved.
The “fix” is in folks. That’s how we do things in corrupt Tallahassee.
No doubt it will be a leftist DEI hire, and after much damage is done, we will go around this mountain again in less than two years.
Amy Toman has been the Tallahassee Deputy City Attorney for the past 6 Years, has been acting City Attorney since this past November and she has also spent over five years as Executive Director of the Florida Elections Commission. SO, tell me, why wasn’t she promoted to City Attorney and your not looking for a new Deputy City Attorney? According to this article, Amy Toman is better qualified then the other three Candidates.