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Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 28, 2022

Shelby County Commissioners are set to fill the vacant District 33 state Senate seat during a special meeting on March 3, the Daily Memphian reports. The vacancy was created after former Democratic Sen. Katrina Robinson was expelled by the Senate following her conviction on four counts of wire fraud. Commissioners had debated whether to fill the empty seat given the General Assembly’s short election-year session, but decided to move forward after Sen. Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, told commissioners that filling the vacancy was urgent. The deadline to submit an application to the commission for the vacant seat ended today at noon CST.