Now acting county mayor Joyce Avery included the members of what she called an advisory team in the swearing-in ceremony.
They are: former county commissioners Charlie Perkins, Ed Williams and Cleo Kirk; former city councilman Brent Taylor; Tennessee Republican Party executive committee member Layne Provine; and businessman and former Memphis Builder's Exchange president Jay Weatherington, who has also been a member of the Shelby County Needs Assessment Committee that evaluates school building projects.
It was hard not to notice the preponderance of older white Republican males. Kirk is the lone African-American member.
Something tells me that if the tables were turned, you wouldn't be including in your article that "It was hard not to notice the preponderance of black Democrats"