Tim Dwyer leaves the bench and a lifetime of politics
Drug Court Judge Tim Dwyer hold a print of himself and his uncles Buddy Dwyer and Judge Robert Dwyer on Thursday, July 28, 2022. After 38 years, Judge Dwyer will be retiring from the bench at the end of August. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
General Sessions Court Judge Tim Dwyer is not seeking another term in the Aug. 4 election ending a family journey in politics that began in the early 1950s.
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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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