{"county":"Shelby","description":"Circuit court website: https://www.shelbycountytn.gov/223/Circuit-Court\n\nShelby County's Circuit Court judges are elected to non-staggered, eight-year terms on a non-partisan basis. All nine divisions of the court are responsible for disposition of all case types. Orders are entered within all divisions Monday through Thursday beginning at 10:00 am. Each Friday, all divisions hear motions beginning at 9:00 am.\n\nBudget\nThe court's budget is available here: https://www.shelbycountytn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2898/12-Judicial?bidId=\n\nJudges are paid $16,270 per month.","district":"shelby","districtgroup":"county","id":45,"key":"county_circuit_judge_div_9","lastchangeby":null,"name":"Yolanda Kight Brown","next_election":"2022-11-08","notes":"55","officegroup":"county_circuit_court","partisan":0,"party":"","qualities":"- Trial-court judge of general civil and criminal jurisdiction in a Tennessee circuit court \u2014 presides over jury and bench trials, dispositive motions, and sentencing under TCA.\n- Judicial temperament: the willingness to listen, deliberate, and apply the law dispassionately to people whose lives are deeply affected by the outcome.\n- Impartiality and ethics under the Tennessee Rules of Judicial Conduct, including disqualification when conflicts arise.\n- Working knowledge of the substantive and procedural law applied in the assigned court (cited per court below) and the published precedent that controls.\n- Docket management \u2014 moving cases efficiently while honoring due process and the time pressures that fall on litigants and witnesses.\n- Clear written and oral explanation of rulings, so the parties and the public can follow the reasoning.","quantity":1,"source":null,"state":"TN","term_end":"2030-09-01","term_start":"2022-09-01","term_years":8,"terms":[{"current":1,"description":"","electiondate":"2022-08-06","name":"Yolanda Kight Brown","person":{"biography":"Elected Circuit Court Judge Yolanda Kight Brown","firstname":"Yolanda","lastname":"Brown","middlename":"Kight","token":"yPZzIZ8AxL"},"term_end":"2030-09-01","term_start":"2022-09-01"}],"title":"County Circuit Judge Div 9","type":"judicial","url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-04-25 19:49:19"}