Marc Woolley is Delaware County’s new deputy executive director, coming to the position after deciding not to become the interim city manager in Charlottesville, VA, reports Brian Baxter for bloomberglaw.com.

The former Big Law lawyer rejected the Charlottesville job less than a month after accepting the role, citing the city’s struggle with affordable housing, government turnover, and the aftermath of the 2018 White supremacist rally.

“There’s just no way that an interim person can work underneath that craziness,” Wooley, who is Black, said.

Woolley instead started Dec. 6 in Delaware County.

He previously worked at the law firms Ballard Spahr and Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr.

He arrives here just as the county begins transitioning the George W. Hill Correctional Facility from private to public hands.

“A lot of those people incarcerated look like me and my family,” said Woolley. “I want to make sure they can reenter society appropriately.”

Wooley, 52, was Harrisburg city manager for four years when it struggled with a debt crisis.

He was at the Hershey Trust Co. when it faced claims of wrongdoing by board members. He’s also spent four years at the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

Read more at Bloomberglaw.com about Marc Woolley coming to Delaware County.