Three Democratic clerks fall to rival Democrats in Tuesday primaries
Jamita Swearengen, seen here as on the City Council in 2021,upset incumbent Circuit Court Clerk Temiika Gipson for the primary win. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Only one of the incumbent Democratic clerks from 2018’s Democratic sweep of the offices was without a challenge from within the party. Three of the incumbents didn’t survive to advance to the August county general election.
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Shelby County Election Commission 2022 elections 2022 county primaries Arriell Q. Gipson Wanda Halbert William Stovall Mondell Williams Jamita Swearengen Willie Brooks Shelandra Ford Eddie Jones Bill MorrisonBill Dries on demand
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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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