Joyce Avery started her first full day as acting Shelby County mayor by attending the Multicultural Memphis Breakfast sponsored by Leadership Memphis, then met Health Department officials for a briefing, county spokeswoman Rhonda Turner said.
Avery will hear similar briefings from other departments during her tenure as acting mayor, which began Monday morning and is likely to last only 15 days.
Avery's next stop is the county Department of Corrections, which operates the prison facility near Shelby Farms.
Avery also had a short meeting with county chief administrative officer Jim Huntzicker, Turner said.
The Shelby County Commission is set to pick an interim mayor on Nov. 9 who would serve until Sept. 1, filling the rest of A C Wharton's unexpired term.
As County Commission chairwoman, Avery automatically became acting mayor when Wharton took the city mayor's job.
Commissioners are unlikely to pick Avery as interim mayor because she's a Republican and a majority of commissioners are Democrats.
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