After 25 years at the Tampa Tribune, where he was a reporter and editorial writer, he became a hearing officer overseeing ...

Jeffrey Wofford Stidham, a former Polk County judicial hearing officer and reporter and editorial writer for the Tampa Tribune, died March 6 after a battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.

Stidham met fellow reporter, Mary Ellen Murphy, while working at the Tampa Tribune. After a four-year courtship, they married and settled in a historic home in Bartow. Their daughter, Susan ...