Long-time Grambling city clerk retires
Leader photo by Nancy Bergeron
Retiring Grambling municipal Clerk Pamela Stringfellow sits at her desk behind numerous awards she’s won during her 43 years with the city. Friday is Stringfellow’s last day on the job.
GRAMBLING — Pamela Stringfellow is about to do something she hasn’t done in 43 years.
“It’s time for me to do me,” she said Wednesday.
Stringfellow, Grambling’s master municipal clerk, is retiring Friday after more than four decades with the city.
Grambling’s City Council is expected to officially accept her retirement at tonight’s council meeting. The council is also set to vote on naming Assistant City Clerk Angela Harper as the new clerk.
“My heart is filled with many emotions as I bid farewell after a long journey with some good and some hard times in this role,” Stringfellow said Wednesday.
She said she’d like to be remembered “as someone who did her best to make the city a better place.”
Stringfellow joined the city staff in 1981, when the late Richard Gallot, Sr., was mayor. She’s served in six mayoral administrations.
Stringfellow became clerk in 1992 when incumbent Clerk Rosetta Days was forced to step aside. Days was also an elected member of the City Council. State law barred holding both positions.
“That’s how I became clerk,” Stringfellow said. Stringfellow is the only certified clerk in Grambling’s history.
Among other things, the clerk is responsible for taking minutes at council meetings and keeping up with policies, ordinances, liquor licenses, and other municipal records.
Stringfellow said the best part of her years with the city has been the people.
“I’ve been blessed with support, love, and laughter during my tenure as clerk,” she said. “It’s been good.”
Stringfellow said she plans to travel and spend more time with her family now that she’s retired.
