State opens applications for 2 new divisions of Shelby County Criminal Court
Shelby County lost Division 9 of Criminal Court following the resignation of former Judge Melissa Boyd. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The new law came after the county lost two judicial seats in 2024, one in Shelby County Criminal Court and a second in Shelby County Circuit Court.
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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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