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Article: Two turn down chief magistrate job.
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- Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
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- September 18, 2007
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Byline: Matt Wilson
Sep. 18--Former General Sessions Judge Richard Holcomb and retired attorney Leroy Phillips said Monday that Hamilton County commissioners contacted them regarding the position of chief judicial commissioner, but neither took it.
"I'm retired," Mr. Holcomb said. "I told them no."
Mr. Holcomb said he told commissioners that the program of judicial commissioners, often called magistrates, should be changed so that judges, rather than county commissioners, appoint the magistrates.
"The whole system was flawed by the way it was set up," he said.
Mr. Phillips said he contacted commissioners about taking on the ...