Well former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe is at it again. A man that authors a weekly column for Knox News in the Shopper publication (which is used to wrap the weekly sales circular) is wrong again.
He writes that Circuit Court Judge Deborah Stevens is the lone elected female (woman) Judge in Knox County. Quite a shock to General Sessions Court Judge Patricia Hall Long, I am sure.
Long was appointed by the Knox County Commission in September 2008 to become Knox County’s second female Judge at the time joining former Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz, from this Knox News story.
Long went on to win election in 2010 by the voters to complete the term, Commission appointed her too. In 2014, Long was unopposed in the Republican primary and defeated a Democrat opponent by garnering 72% of the General election votes. She is up for election this year, 2022 as well.
In 2014, Long was one of three female elected Judges in Knox County, Long, Deborah Stevens and Kristi Davis. Davis has moved on to the TN Court of Appeals.
When will Joel Christopher get tired of Ashe, the little bitter man with an agenda for using the Knox News Sentinel ink for Ashe’s own petty turf wars?
a portion of Ashe column 1/31/2022
Victor probably thinks Joel Christopher owes him for the $11 million PILOT then Mayor Ashe gave the News Sentinel to stay in Knoxville back in the late 1990’s. Pay for Play. Want to bet Victor reminds Christopher of that? Bill Lyons wrote that PILOT. When a claw back was tried the Judge said the PILOT was so poorly written as to be unenforceable.