Mecklenburg County Chief District Court Judge To Be Replaced
Mecklenburg County’s chief district court judge will be replaced in the coming weeks, officials confirmed Tuesday after Channel 9 first broke the story. North Carolina Chief Justice Paul Newby plans to replace Chief District Court Judge Elizabeth Trosch, Channel 9′s Hunter Sáenz and Joe Bruno first confirmed with multiple sources on Tuesday.
Trosch will be replaced by Judge Roy Wiggins, effective May 1, according to a statement sent Tuesday afternoon by the 26th Judicial District.
According to a statement from Trosch, she was informed on Monday that Chief Justice Newby “wants a different direction in leadership for Mecklenburg.”
The move comes in the wake of recent issues in the Mecklenburg County court. Sáenz has reported on the backlog of cases in Mecklenburg County, low bonds for repeat offenders, and a controversial rollout of the county’s new electronic court system. The new system was ordered by Newby’s office as a county-by-county statewide rollout. Trosch, along with the Mecklenburg County Clerk of Courts, were tasked with the local rollout.