TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 25, 2022

Memphis attorney Janika White has announced she’ll run in the Democratic primary for Shelby County district attorney general, the Daily Memphian reports. At her campaign kickoff last month, White called for criminal justice reform and critiqued the “tough on crime” approach, saying it leads to “over-incarceration of a group of people with no actual results.” She says the DA’s office should prosecute when crimes are committed, but should also be involved in efforts to prevent crime. White is a partner at the Walter Bailey Law Firm in Memphis. She previously clerked for Chancellor Kenny Armstrong and U.S. District Judge Bernice, who is now on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law and is a 2018 graduate of the TBA’s Leadership Law program.