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Adams County recognizes Medical Examiner Marilyn Rogers on retirement; staff candidate for replacement introduced
Summary
The committee approved a resolution honoring Marilyn Rogers for 18 years with the Adams County Medical Examiner’s Office and heard that an internal candidate, Bethany Spah, is under consideration for the medical examiner position.
The Adams County Safety and Judiciary Committee approved a resolution on April 9 recognizing Marilyn Rogers for 18 years of service with the county medical examiner’s office.
Committee members praised Rogers’s tenure. Mr. Kabirsky told colleagues he had worked with Rogers “for most of those 18 years” and said, “she's done Adams County a very good job.” Committee member Sylvia said Rogers “has made a name for herself, both within the county and the community,” and highlighted Rogers’s work building tissue donation and the chaplain program.
The resolution was moved and seconded and approved by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.
Rogers said she appreciated the remarks and recounted a formative question she had been asked early in her tenure: “So what do you do? Just go and say they're dead and then leave?” She said the office has undergone an “educational process” since then.
Committee members also received an update on the department’s succession process. Rogers introduced Bethany Spah, who the medical examiner identified as having worked in the office for about five years and as an internal candidate for the position. Rogers said Spah had “a real passion for the job” and noted Spah had led an effort that resulted in reimbursement for an unclaimed veteran through a program Spah found and researched.
The committee discussed the hiring process timeline and panel composition. The department head explained this posting was an internal search that closes the day of the meeting and that department heads review applicants after the closing. For a department-head appointment, a panel of five is required; staff said Marilyn Rogers may be able to participate in the panel during the selection process.
Rogers also announced events for National Donate Life Month, including a flag-raising ceremony and “blue and green day” at the hospital in mid-April to honor donor families. Rogers noted her last day will be May 2 and invited colleagues to a noon potluck that day.
