All 11 candidates in the Democratic primary for County Clerk
Backlogs in the Shelby County Clerk’s office in 2022 had residents facing long lines to renew license plates. (Alicia Davidson/The Daily Memphian file)
Here are brief bios of the 11 candidates in the May 5 Democratic primary for County Clerk. The winner meets Republican nominee Tina Montgomery in the August county general election.
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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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