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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 30, 2022

A portrait unveiling will take place Monday for former Shelby County Circuit Court Judge James F. Russell. The event will be held at the Memphis Botanic Garden from 4-5:30 p.m. CDT. Russell, who decided not to seek reelection this year, was appointed to the court in 1998. A 1970 graduate of the University of Memphis School of Law, he was in private practice at Apperson, Crump, Duzane & Maxwell before joining the court. While serving as a judge, Russell received the Memphis Bar Association’s 2000 Charles A. Rond Outstanding Judge of the Year Award and served on the Judicial Ethics Committee and Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission. He is a former chair of the Tennessee Judicial Conference’s ADR Committee, program chair of the Leo Bearman Sr. American Inn of Court and president of the Memphis Bar Association.

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