FORT PIERCE – Effective Saturday, there will be one attorney left in Fort Pierce’s city legal office and she will be leaving in less than three weeks.
And a prospective temporary city attorney, who was the chief legal counsel for St. Lucie County from 1985-2025, withdrew from consideration last week after apparently learning he would be taking over an office with no other legal staff.
Those developments last week left the Fort Pierce City scrambling at a special meeting Monday morning to staff their legal office and begin recruitment of a new city attorney to succeed Sara Hedges…