Challenging the legality of the constitutionally of a recall vote, Dorothy A. “Doris” Black – Jackson-Madison County School System Board Member, District 4, Position 1 – has filed a lawsuit against the State of Tennessee, Madison County, former school board member David Clifft, the Madison County Election Commission and the Jackson-Madison County School Board.

Nashville attorney Allison Carroll filed the lawsuit, which is scheduled to go to Madison County Chancery Court, Friday.

“I was the person who turned in the petition, and I was named along with the Election Commission and Kim Buckley (administrator of elections), and even named the School Board, but I don’t understand that,” David Clifft said, “But, what I think I understand is, she is not suing me personally … I’m part of the whole process she is challenging.”

Doris Black is the subject of a recall election for School Board District 4.

A committee delivered a petition to the Madison County Election Commission with the necessary 1,151 signatures needed to call an election on the question of whether to recall Black as a member of the school board.

The 1,151 signatures required was 66 percent of the vote Black received, and the required number of signatures needed for a recall.

The recall election will be held on Dec. 10, 2019.

(PHOTO: Doris Black is seated second from the left)

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