Lakeland removes interim tag, names Walker city manager
Lakeland Board of Commissioners named Michael Walker as their new city manager at their meeting, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (Greg Campbell/Special to Daily Memphian)
Walker says “never in a million years” would he have guessed back in 2014 when he began working on Lakeland’s audits as a CPA and senior manager with Watkins Uiberall, PLLC, that he would one day end up the city manager of Lakeland.
Michael Waddell
Michael Waddell is a native Memphian with more than 20 years of professional writing and editorial experience, working most recently with The Daily News and High Ground News.
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