Committee appointed to consider removing Judge Melissa Boyd
Tennessee Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton, center, and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, not pictured, each appointed five-member committees to consider removing Shelby County Criminal Court Division 9 Judge Melissa Boyd. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The committee could meet as soon as Thursday, March 7. The process for her removal is not the same as a formal impeachment, which would stop her from running for office again.
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Melissa Boyd Shelby County Criminal Court Tennessee State GovernmentIan Round
Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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