Adopted Arkansas judge seeks his birth parents for the holidays
November 25, 2021 | Arkansas
It was an inauspicious start: Joseph Wood was discovered as an abandoned baby in a shoebox during a Chicago snowstorm in 1965. Today, the Arkansas resident’s Christmas wish is to give his birth parents two words.
“It’s something I’ve longed for, just to say ‘thank you’ to them,” Judge Wood said. “I’m here because of them.” Now 56, Judge Wood has been elected twice to be Washington County’s judge — the first Black county judge in Arkansas’ history. As county judge, he also is chief executive officer of the county government. And he is a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in next year’s election.
He made his parental search public this month in a last-ditch holiday effort to locate the birth family that has eluded him for decades… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
