TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Sep 8, 2022

The Shelby County Commission will soon fill three judicial commissioner positions that are vacant after attorneys holding them won August elections to become judges, the Daily Memphian reports. “We cannot afford to be light on judicial commissioners,” General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Bill Anderson told the commission yesterday. “And we cannot afford to bring in judicial commissioners who don’t know their job when they walk through the door.” Anderson, who oversees the judicial commissioners, has offered to screen the applicants for the three positions. He says the vacancies leave the court system “woefully inadequate.” Applications for the positions are due Friday and will be followed by interviews on Sept. 21 and a final commission vote on Sept. 26. The judicial commissioners as a whole are part of a new bail court that starts operation in February.