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He replaces long-time city attorney Robert M. Carter. It was also announced at the meeting that the board will pay the remaining part of Carter's contact and that Carter will work with McMillin to smooth the transition.
The city board members became upset with Carter when they learned that he had filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against Toyota, which is building a plant in nearby Blue Springs.
Aldermen voted last Tuesday to fire Carter.
Carter filed the suit in federal court in Oxford on behalf of two Alabama attorneys as part of an effort to qualify as a nationwide suit.
The Alabama attorneys could not legally file in Mississippi and they also needed a local plaintiff for the suit. That representative plaintiff is Belva Simmons, who owns a 2007 Toyota Camry that is part of a company recall.
More on this story in Tuesday's NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.
If the residents of New Albany are stupid enough to allow stuff like that, they're getting what they deserve.
The mayor's last major competitor tried to raise that point, but evidently it wasn't enough.
If so, what is at city the size of New Albany doing providing their mayor with a vehicle?
If I lived in New Albany, I'd be demanding some explanations of how they're spending taxpayer money.
Now they're going to pay the remainder of Mr. Carter's contract, how interesting.
Oh, but the firing was completely within the terms of the contract, huh?
Obviously not!!
Either that or they are afraid of the possible expose of the other wrongdoings that Mr. Carter was threatening to expose in his lawsuit.
It's one or the other and either one makes them look stupid, if not criminal.
As I've said all along, the best thing these bozos could have done for the city would have been nothing at all.
So, now these hayseeds are going to wind up paying for two city attorneys.
But then I guess the city of New Albany just has money to burn!