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[edit] Memphis City Council

The Memphis City Council is the legislative body of Memphis, Tennessee. It is comprised of thirteen city council members, seven of which are elected from districts with one representative each, and six of which are elected from "super districts" with three representatives each. ^[1] The Metro City Council committees meet on every first and third Tuesday of every month. ^[2]

The first city council took office in 1968, after the modern city charter had been approved by Memphis voters in a 1966 referendum. The 1966 charter set the salary for council members at $6,000, which was later raised to $20,100 in 1995, and later raised again to the current amount of $30,100. The 1966 charter provided for run-off elections when no candidate got a majority of the vote, but a federal judge overruled that section of the charter in 1991.^[3]

[edit] Current members

District	Name
District 1	E.C. Jones
District 2	Brent Taylor
District 3	Madeleine Cooper Taylor
District 4	Dedrick Brittenum, Jr.
District 5	Carol Chumney
District 6	Edmund Ford
District 7	Barbara Swearengen Ware
Super District 8, Position 1	Joe Brown
Super District 8, Position 2	Henry Hooper II
Super District 8, Position 3	Myron Lowery
Super District 9, Position 1	Scott McCormick
Super District 9, Position 2	Tom Marshall
Super District 9, Position 3	Jack Sammons

[edit] References

1. ^ "Memphis City Council". Retrieved on September 15, 2007.
2. ^ "Council Standing Committees. Retrieved on September 15, 2007.
3. ^ Branston, John. "A Century of Change", Memphis City Flyer, July 20, 2006.