Millington native’s return to US attorney seat clears Senate Judiciary Committee
Michael Dunavant (at podium) was US attorney for the district during President Donald Trump’s first term. (Adrian Sainz/AP file)
Ahead of the roll call vote, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn spoke in favor of Dunavant, calling him an “experienced prosecutor.”
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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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