Bill McGriff
Bill McGriff is retiring after 41 years in the county auditor's office, including 38 as auditor.
Mr. McGriff, 68, said his last day will be Sept. 30, and he will be honored with a reception in the County Courthouse rotunda on Sept. 28 at 11 a.m.
"It was just time for the next phase of my life," he said.
That will include more time with his 90-year-old parents, who live in Decatur, Ala. He has an upcoming trip with his father, a World War II veteran, to a military reunion in Albuquerque.
A previous county auditor was Harry Carpenter, Mr. McGriff's former boss at a local CPA firm. Mr. McGriff said as a private CPA "I was working 70-80 hours a week and Saturdays and Sundays. I wasn't seeing my young daughter."
Mr. Carpenter advised him that the auditor who replaced him, Don Downey, was looking for an assistant auditor. Mr. McGriff said, "I went to the courthouse, interviewed with him and was hired that day (Sept. 29, 1975)."
When Mr. Downey left three years later, Mr. McGriff moved up to auditor.
The Mowbray resident is on the board of the Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority as well as the Northwest Utility District. He is on the Public Records Commission and the Erlanger Hospital Financial Review Committee. He is involved in the oversight of Erlanger's indigent care program.