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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 13, 2019

The deadline to file for clerk of the Shelby County General Sessions Court passed yesterday with 18 applicants filing petitions, the Commercial Appeal reports. Those filing in the Republican primary are former probate court clerk Paul Boyd, Michael Finney, George Summers and Lisa Wimberly. Those filing in the Democratic primary are current Shelby County Commissioners Reginald Milton and Eddie Jones; Memphis City Councilman Joe Brown; current employees of the clerk’s office Gortria Banks, Rheunte Benson, Adrienne Dailey-Evans and Tavia Tate; former city court clerk Tanya Cooper; Wanda Faulkner; Assistant to the Register of Deeds Deidre Fisher; Roderic Ford; Del Gill; and Thomas Long. Former State Sen. John Ford also filed a petition but according to the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections he is not eligible to run, reducing the total eligible applicants to 17.