Strickland nominates county EOC administrator as city court judge
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland talks to the media during a press conference at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 21, 2019. Strickland recently appointed Carolyn Watkins as City Court Judge. (Daily Memphian file)
If approved by the Memphis City Council, Carolyn Watkins would fill the vacancy created by the January death of City Court Judge Teresa Jones.
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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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