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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 5, 2022

Among the upsets in Shelby County yesterday, Memphis City Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon won over incumbent Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael and attorneys Dee Shawn Peoples and William Ray Glasgow. Michael, who inherited a 2012 agreement for U.S. Justice Department oversight of Juvenile Court, portrayed himself as a reformer during the campaign, but Sugarman argued he was not serious about reform given his efforts to end federal oversight. The victory breaks a chain of juvenile court judges that stretches back more than 50 years from the late Kenneth Turner, to his handpicked successor Curtis Person Jr., to Michael, who was first hired by Turner. The Daily Memphian has more on judicial races in the county.