Chancellor rules Memphis City Council can be in residency lawsuit
Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins ruled the Memphis City Council can be a party to the mayoral residency lawsuit. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
A legal fight between the City of Memphis administration and Memphis City Council boiled down to a simple argument Wednesday — who gets to represent the city?
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JoeDae Jenkins Memphis City CouncilSamuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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