Whoever emerges as the winner of the General Sessions Judge race in Warren County will be receiving a pay raise. The job now pays $145,000 as opposed to the previous salary of $134,377.Linda Hillis, Warren County director of finance, informed the county’s Budget and Finance Committee that her office was notified by the Department of Justice there was a discrepancy in what the county was paying Judge Bill Locke and what the correct pay should be.Hillis went back to September 2006 after the budget for that year passed. An increase in the judge’s pay had been allotted in July of that year.
Local judges werent being paid enough