In our July 14 cover article, “Kind of Blue,” we reviewed the August 4 countywide ballot and published a list of candidates for judicial offices, along with the results of a Shelby County Bar Association poll showing local lawyers’ preferences in each judicial race. Both the Shelby County Democratic Party and the Shelby County Republican Party have issued their own preferences, which we indicate below from lists provided by the parties.
DEMOCRATIC JUDICIAL PICKS
REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL PICKS
Juvenile Court
Dan Michael
Circuit Court
Division 1 — Felicia Corbin-Johnson
Division 2 – Kenneth Margo
Division 3 – Valerie L. Smith
Division 4 – Gina Carol Higgins
Division 7 – Mary L. Wagner
Division 8 – Robert “Bob” S. Weiss
Chancery Court
Part I – Gadson “Will” Perry
Criminal Court
Division 1 – Paula Skahan
Division 2 – Joseph Ozment
Division 3 – James Jones
Division 5 – Chris Lareau
Division 6 – David Pool
Division 7 – Lee V. Coffee
Division 8 – Chris Craft
Division 9 – Mark Ward
Division 10 – Jennifer Mitchell
Probate Court
Division 1 – Kathleen N. Gomes
General SessionsDivision 1 – Lynn Cobb
Division 2 – Phyllis B. Gardner
Division 3 – Lincoln Hodges
Division 4 – Deborah A. Means Henderson
Division 5 – Betty Thomas Moore
Division 6 – Lonnie Thompson
Division 7 – Bill Anderson, Jr.
Division 8 – Lee Wilson
Division 9 – Gerald Skahan
Division 10 – Greg Gilber
Division 11 – Karen Lynne Massey
Division 12 – Silvio Ronald Lucchesi
Division 13 – Louis Montesi
Division 14 – Danny Kail