After 17 years in elected office, Edmund Ford Jr. is at a crossroads
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. participates in committee meetings Aug. 3, 2022. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. has evolved in 17 years as an elected official.
The organized, numbers-centric newcomer who lived for budget season is now a wary political warrior with name recognition but not necessarily prevailing budgetary votes.
Ford Jr., 45, has always focused on what he has secured for his Southwest Memphis constituents, both as a Memphis City Council member and a Shelby County commissioner. The districts he’s represented on both bodies share some of the same geography.
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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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