Tom Johnson is set to retire April 30 after eight years with the county. 6:00 am, Mar. 6, 2021 ×
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WORTHINGTON When Nobles County Administrator Tom Johnson announced to commissioners in a closed session Tuesday morning that he would be retiring at the end of April, it didn’t come as a surprise.
Johnson had begun talking about his impending departure a year and a half ago, when the county hired a deputy county administrator in a dual role as emergency management director.
“March (2021) was a speculative date a year and a half ago,” Johnson said Wednesday.
In the position for slightly more than eight years he started in February 2013 Johnson said it’s time to see his kids and grandkids more often. He and his wife have five grown children, scattered across the country from Utah to Georgia, and 10 grandchildren.