Former Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. is among six applicants for the District 6 seat held by his son Edmund Ford Jr.

The younger Ford resigned effective Sunday following his election in August to the Shelby County Commission.

Meanwhile, eight citizens picked up applications for the vacancy in council Super District 8 with the Friday resignation of Janis Fullilove. Fullilove was elected Shelby County Juvenile Court clerk and had to give up her council seat.

The county charter gives any city official who is elected to a county office 90 days to resign his or her city position.

The deadline to submit applications for the two new council vacancies is noon Dec. 13. The council is scheduled to vote to fill the seats at its Dec. 18 meeting, the last session of the year.

Those appointed will serve until the end of 2019, when Fullilove's and Ford's terms of office run out. 

Applicants must include an affidavit and proof they live in the council district as well as a petition signed by at least 25 voters who also live in the district.

Council District 6 is part of Super District 8, which takes in half of the city. So applicants could pull forms for both vacancies, but under the council’s procedure, they can apply for only one seat.

So far, only one applicant, Vera Holmes, has pulled applications for both vacancies.

In addition to Holmes and Edmund Ford Sr., the other prospective applicants for the District 6 vacancy include Theryn Bond, a vocal critic of the current council and the younger Ford in particular; Sharon Webb, a former Memphis City Schools board member who has run several times for mayor; Davin Clemons; and Randy Reiding.

No information was immediately available on Holmes, Clemons and Reiding. The application log includes only the name of the person applying.

The eight applicants for the Super District 8 vacancy include former Shelby County Property Assessor Cheyenne Johnson; Mary Donald, a neighborhood watch leader active in the Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corp.; Mark Jones, an independent film-maker and activist as well as member of the Coliseum Coalition group; Deloris Davis; Tonya Cooper; Cortez Fifer; and Jeffrey Sunding.

No information was immediately available on Davis, Cooper, Fifer and Sunding.

The District 6 seat has been held by five members of the Ford family since John Ford, Edmund Ford Jr.’s uncle, upset incumbent council member James Netters in the 1971 city elections.

Edmund Ford Sr. served two terms on the council before his son was elected to the body in 2007 and took office in 2008. After he left the council, Edmund Ford Sr. was acquitted by a jury of federal corruption charges from an FBI sting conducted while he was on the council. Federal corruption charges filed against Ford in an unrelated case were dismissed by prosecutors shortly after the verdict for acquittal.

City Council members also are filling a third open seat, the District 1 position Bill Morrison vacated Nov. 1 following his election as Shelby County Probate Court clerk in August. 

The application process for that seat has closed. The council took more than 100 votes on six contenders at its Nov. 20 meeting, with none of the applicants getting a required seven-vote majority. 

On Dec. 4, the council will try again to fill the District 1 seat. Because Ford and Fullilove's resignations have taken effect, 10 council members instead of 12 will be voting on that vacancy.