TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 10, 2021

Memphis attorney Steve Mulroy announced yesterday that he will compete in the Democratic primary for Shelby County district attorney. The position is currently held by Amy Weirich, a Republican, who also has announced her reelection effort. Weirich has been in the post since 2011. According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Mulroy’s announcement included a “scathing indictment of Weirich's time in office.” Mulroy has been on the faculty of the University of Memphis School of Law since 2000, teaching constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, civil rights and election law. He is a former civil rights lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department and a former federal prosecutor. He also was a Shelby County commissioner from 2006 to 2014. Mulroy will face a primary challenge from attorney Linda Harris, an independent conflict resolution mediator and arbitrator who previously worked as federal judicial law clerk to the late U.S. District Court Judge Jerome Turner. Harris also worked as a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District, as a constitutional law and civil rights attorney in private practice and as a Memphis police officer.