{"id":1178378,"date":"2022-11-09T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1178378"},"modified":"2022-11-10T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:35:28","slug":"nathaniel-moran-resigns-as-smith-county-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1178378","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Moran resigns as Smith County Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/MoranResignation-175x81.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1178379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/MoranResignation-175x81.webp 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/MoranResignation-550x254.webp 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/MoranResignation.webp 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Smith County Judge Nathaniel Moran resigned from his position as Smith County Judge on Wednesday following his election to the U.S. House District 1. According to our news partner KETK in a special called meeting of the Smith County Commissioners Court, Constable Josh Joplin talked about his experiences with Moran throughout the years. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have probably brought this county county further for law enforcement and public safety in your tenure than any county judge ever has in the history of this county,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Joplin said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your concerns for public safety and the safety of the people go unmatched.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Commissioner Precinct 1 Neal Franklin was sworn in as the new county judge and taking his seat as Commissioner Precinct 1 will be Bullard Mayor Pam Frederick who was appointed and sworn into office by Judge Reeve Jackson at Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s special called meeting. The motion to approve her appointment was unanimously affirmed. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bittersweet morning for me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Moran said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to tender my resignation effective immediately as a result of the election last night. I look forward to serving in Congress, and I am truly humbled and honored to do that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Moran said he was honored to serve his community from outside of Smith County and has enjoyed his tenure as County Judge and said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it has been the highest honor.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Smith County Judge Nathaniel Moran resigned from his position as Smith County Judge on Wednesday following his election to the U.S. House District 1. According to our news partner KETK in a special called meeting of the Smith County Commissioners Court, Constable Josh Joplin talked about his experiences with Moran throughout the years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1178378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nathaniel Moran resigns as Smith County Judge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1178383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/MoranResignation-175x81.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Nathaniel Moran resigns as Smith County Judge","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 18:33:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/MoranResignation-175x81.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Nathaniel Moran resigns as Smith County Judge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178381,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178378\/revisions\/1178381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}