Can a Court Clerk be suspended? Otis Jackson was in 2011.

By , Daily Memphian Published: June 16, 2026 6:49 PM CT

General Sessions judges removed the Court Clerk in 2011 after he was charged with official misconduct.

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General Sessions Court Clerk Otis Jackson Tami Sawyer Mike Ritz

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries

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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