{"id":1391,"date":"2011-01-22T05:28:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2011-01-22T06:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T13:01:56","slug":"longtime-municipal-court-clerk-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/01\/22\/longtime-municipal-court-clerk-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Municipal Court clerk retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Van Wert Municipal Court employee Beverly Mercer recently retired after 22 years of service with the court.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1392\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1392\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/?attachment_id=1392\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1392 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Bev-Mercer-retires-from-VWMC-1-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert Municipal Court Chief Deputy Clerk Beverly Mercer at her retirement reception. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mercer, who started as a part-time employee with the court in 1988, was made a full-time clerk shortly afterwards. In 2002, she was named chief deputy clerk for Van Wert Municipal Court.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal Court Clerk of Courts Deb Lichtensteiger said Mercer, who fulfilled a number of duties and responsibilities for the court, would be greatly missed by her co-workers and Judge Jill Leatherman.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer and her husband, Richard, have two sons, Matt (Storm) Mercer and Adam (Tamara) Mercer, and four grandchildren: Rachael, Kennis, Nathan and Trenton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Van Wert Municipal Court employee Beverly Mercer recently retired after 22 years of service with the court. Mercer, who started as a part-time employee with the court in 1988, was made a full-time clerk shortly afterwards. In 2002, she was named chief deputy clerk for Van Wert Municipal Court. Municipal Court Clerk of Courts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 17:48:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}