Sawyer is new General Sessions Court clerk
Newly elected General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer (center) greets supporters Thursday night, Aug. 1 at an election night party at Swamp Bar at Overton Square. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer won a hard-fought partisan contest for General Sessions Court Clerk in the only countywide race on the Thursday, Aug. 1, ballot.
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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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