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s a Staff Attorney and then as an Environmental Court Referee. Since 2015, she has served as a Memphis & Shelby County Juvenile Court Staff Attorney & Magistrate Judge where she presides over cases involving delinquency, truancy, foster care, dependency/neglect/child abuse, and custody and visitation matters. Magistrate Addison was the first African-American appointed to serve as a Referee in Environmental Court. She faithfully attends Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ. She is a member of the Tennessee Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the National Council of Juvenile Court & Family Judges, the Memphis Bar Association, the National Association of Women Judges and the Association of Women Attorneys & the Joshua Learning Tree Parent Board. She is the wife of one, mother of one.