County doesn’t want to pay Wanda Halbert’s legal fees
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert speaks at an Oct. 28, 2025 press conference held at her Downtown office. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The county’s second attempt to oust Wanda Halbert as County Clerk ended with a court order dictating county government should pay her legal fees.
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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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