The race for General Sessions Court clerk and why it’s important
The only countywide race on the Aug. 1 ballot that begins with early voting Friday, July 12, will mean a change in the administrator and records keeper for the state’s largest court system.
The change in the General Sessions Court clerk’s office comes at a time when the local criminal justice system is under greater scrutiny. General Sessions Court has civil and criminal divisions.
The clerk’s race is a contest between Democratic nominee Tami Sawyer and Republican nominee Lisa Arnold.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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