There are 7 article(s) tagged Shelby County General Sessions Court:

• November 2025

  • Judges order Clerk’s, Sheriff’s offices to fix delays

    The Sheriff’s and the General Sessions Court Clerk’s offices must fix issues causing case delays, according to a judges’ order obtained by The Daily Memphian.

    By Aarron Fleming November 25, 2025

• January 2025

  • County Commission sets schedule to appoint new judge

    At its Monday, Jan. 27, meeting, the Shelby County Commission set the process for filling the vacancy that comes with the March retirement of General Sessions Court Judge Bill Anderson. Also a test of the commission’s new budget subcommittee process.

    By Bill Dries January 26, 2025

• September 2022

  • Court is in session?: Judges absences from bench adding to COVID backlog

    Though it includes 10 judges and 10 divisions, Shelby County’s criminal court system had only tried 32 cases by August of this year — and there’s a backlog of 465 pending trials. 

    By Julia Baker September 06, 2022

• June 2021

  • Longtime Judge John Donald steps down from bench

    Shelby County General Sessions Judge John Donald is set to retire next month after 35 years on the bench. 

    By Yolanda Jones June 16, 2021

• June 2020

  • Chief judge: Court strives for compassion in pandemic-related eviction cases

    General Sessions Civil Court resumed in-person hearings Monday with nearly 300 eviction cases on the docket for the day. But don’t construe that to mean the court is like some “assembly line or factory,” the chief judge says.

    By Tom Bailey June 16, 2020

• April 2020

  • Shelby County court cases reset again

    Shelby County courts have pushed back hearings, trials and court cases for a second time.

    By Yolanda Jones April 08, 2020

• February 2019

  • Shelby County expungement practices questioned by Tennessee Supreme Court

    The state Supreme Court agreed to give the Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk's office 30 days to draft a policy on how it handles expungement filings after his staff failed to handle a case properly.

    By Yolanda Jones February 18, 2019