Aug 11, 2026 · 37 min · 10 segments
Judge David Pool is a fifth generation Memphian, but his pathway to becoming a state criminal court judge was a little out of the ordinary. As a touring musician, he took to the highways of America…
My father was a historian and an attorney, and I know that I had relatives living in Shelby Forest at the time of the Civil War.
It's on the bluff just close to the old International Harvester plant and to Whitspan Airport in Frayser.
And so I worked hard and went to school on a music scholarship, taught music and English for seven years.
At that time, the commercial music program was headed up by a guy named Gene Rush, who played with Dizzy Gillespie.
And my primary teacher had been an arranger for Frank Sinatra, a guy named Dick Steff, whose son actually is in Lucero.
My father was a historian and an attorney, and I know that I had relatives living in Shelby Forest at the time of the Civil War.
It's on the bluff just close to the old International Harvester plant and to Whitspan Airport in Frayser.
And so I worked hard and went to school on a music scholarship, taught music and English for seven years.
At that time, the commercial music program was headed up by a guy named Gene Rush, who played with Dizzy Gillespie.
And my primary teacher had been an arranger for Frank Sinatra, a guy named Dick Steff, whose son actually is in Lucero.
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