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Resigned from office to accept a circuit court judgeship J.O. Patterson, Jr. 1982 Served as interim mayor. First African-American mayor. Former State Representative (one term) and former State Senator (two terms). [1] Wallace Madewell: 1982 Richard C. Hackett: 1982–1991 W. W. Herenton: 1992–2009 First elected African-American mayor Myron ...
The 2023 Memphis mayoral election took place on October 5, 2023, to elect the next mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. Incumbent Jim Strickland was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third term in office.
In the 2023 Memphis mayoral election, Paul Young received 24,408 votes from 98 precincts, 4,500 more than his nearest competitor, Floyd Bonner Jr. [9] The second closest competitor was Willie Herenton, a former Memphis mayor. The vote was split among 17 candidates on the ballot.
The Shelby County Commission met at 160 N. Main Street for a meeting on September 11, 2023 in Memphis, Tenn.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young spoke to local officials, top city workers and the public about the successes in his office within his first 100 days. ... Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy ...
The Shelby County mayor said the proposed employee raises would make county law enforcement personnel the highest-paid in the region.
Shelby County's first elected mayor was Roy Nixon, who served from 1976 to 1978. The current Shelby County mayor is Lee Harris, who was elected in 2018 after having served as the minority leader of the Tennessee Senate. [24]
He won the mayoral election on Oct. 5 by garnering about 28% of the vote and defeating 16 other candidates, including Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner, former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, and ...