Childer's Bid for TN Supreme Court Gets
Boo'd by the Memphis Immigrant Community
by Richard Bergeon
August, 2005
A Memphis newspaper, Commercial Appeal July 22, 2005, article by Richard Locker reported that on an opinion poll conducted by the Tennessee Bar Association regarding all candidates for the state supreme court. He reported that Robert (Butch) Childers, the circuit court judge in Memphis who ruled so spitefully in the He child custody case depriving the parents of their parental rights, received only an 8 percent either "highly recommend" or "recommend," 5 percent "do not recommend" and 87 percent had no opinion.
Childers received the only public opposition in a hearing. Representatives of Memphis' immigrant communities urged the panel not to nominate him because of his 2004 ruling in the Anna Mae He custody case.
Jinliang Cai of the Greater Memphis United Chinese Association, citing the He ruling, was reported to say, "We feel Judge Childers is unsuitable for the justice's position."
Cynthia Magallon, of the Greater Memphis Immigrant Task Force, told the panel that "the immigrant community in Memphis has lost faith in Judge Childers's ability to be fair."
Note: Childers later failed in his bid for the seat
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