{"county":"shelby","description":"","district":"shelby","districtgroup":"county","id":85,"key":"general_sessions_criminal_court_judge_div_8","lastchangeby":null,"name":"Lee Wilson","next_election":"2022-11-08","notes":"95","officegroup":"general_sessions_criminal_court","partisan":0,"party":"","qualities":"- General-Sessions criminal-court judge: handles misdemeanors, preliminary felony hearings, and bond proceedings \u2014 high volume, with constitutional speedy-process obligations.\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":"2022-08-04","name":"Lee Wilson","person":{"biography":"Judge Lee Wilson began his path as a child growing up in Millington during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. His parents insisted that a good education was the way forward to make positive change in our community. After high school Lee enrolled in Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a degree in Political science. After attending law school at the University of Pittsburgh, he returned to Memphis to begin an exciting career.\n\nLee Wilson practiced in the historic law firm of Stokes, Wilson, Wright along with retired Judges Jerry Stokes and Glenn Wright.\n\nFor the last 30 years, Judge Wilson served the courts of Shelby County as an Assistant District Attorney, a Public Defender, Divorce Referee, Lead Judicial Commissioner, and a Judge.\n\nAlong with the Shelby County Commission and our state legislators, Judge Wilson reestablished the Shelby County Domestic Violence Court in 2009 and was elected in 2022 to continue the great work of the Shelby County Drug Court which was established by Judge Tim Dwyer in 1997.\n\nJudge Lee Wilson has been married to Vanessa Wilson for nearly four decades. He is the proud father of Dr. Taylor Wilson Norphlet.","firstname":"Lee","lastname":"Wilson","token":"E1gk1uNFtT"},"term_end":"2030-09-01","term_start":"2022-09-01"}],"title":"General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Div 8","type":"judicial","url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-04-25 19:49:19"}