Mickell Lowery takes oath of office along with other countywide elected officials
New Shelby County Mayor Mickell Lowery takes the oath of office during a swearing-in ceremony Aug. 31. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
It took about two hours to administer the oaths of office Monday, Aug. 31, to a group of 30 elected county leaders who formally begin four-year terms of office Tuesday.
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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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