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Cameroon RPCV Steve Bebb retires as District Criminal Court Judge

Cameroon RPCV Steve Bebb retires as District Criminal Court Judge

"I received my draft notice during Vietnam. I went for my physical and failed it because I had kidney stones and an ingrown toenail. Other than that, I was healthy, but they classified me 1-Y," he said.

The classification disqualified him for service under present conditions. He joined the Peace Corps just to see part of the world. The draft board never changed his draft status.


Cameroon RPCV Steve Bebb retires as District Criminal Court Judge

Bebb's retirement effective January 3

By DAVID DAVIS Managing Editor

Published Sunday, December 04, 2005 6:00 AM EDT

Tenth Judicial District Criminal Court Judge Steve Bebb is scheduled to retire effective Jan. 3, 2006.

Bebb, 64, said "If a judge plans to run for elected office, he can't announce anything. I have plans, but because of judicial ethics, I can't announce it."

His wife, Sun, was named correctly, he said. According to her, he can't quit work until he's 93. "That's when the house will be paid for. I think she's trying to keep me alive."

He remembered his father was forced to retire. "I believe he started dying right then.

"I've enjoyed every job I've ever had, but it was because of the people," he said. "I've been blessed. I don't suppose many people looked outside this morning and said this is a wonderful day, but I did."

The judge was first elected to the bench Sept. 1, 1982. At that time, his duties also included Ducktown Law Court, which has since become part of the 10th Judicial District.

Bebb is a native of Sweetwater. He moved to Athens during his second term and then to Cleveland in his third term.

"I guess we'll stay here," he said.

Bebb taught school in Maryland for a total of six years and Cameroon, West Africa, for two years before he went to law school.

"I received my draft notice during Vietnam. I went for my physical and failed it because I had kidney stones and an ingrown toenail. Other than that, I was healthy, but they classified me 1-Y," he said.

The classification disqualified him for service under present conditions. He joined the Peace Corps just to see part of the world. The draft board never changed his draft status.

"I thought they would," he said.

Bebb completed under graduate work at Middle Tennessee State University earned his law degree at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

He practice law for a year in Knoxville, but left to return home. He worked 7 years as an assistant district attorney to Richard Fisher.

Of all his years on the bench, he said not one of those cases is more memorable than Melisha Gibson, when he was an assistant district attorney.

"The trial was in Athens," he said. "The case changed the law in Tennessee. At that time, there was no law in Tennessee to protect a child from a mother who did nothing."

The girl's father beat her unmercifully and made her drink tabasco sauce. The mother didn't try to stop it or flee with the child because she too was afraid.

"I guess the jurors didn't believe her and convicted her," he said.

He said Melisha's father was convicted and sent to prison and sentenced to life and is still there as far as he knows.





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