Twenty-three people left the Coffee County Circuit Court Clerk's office since 2021. Unfiltered reported that number. What a number can't tell you is why.
Lisa Riddle Dixon can.
"I Am 1 of 23"
Dixon, a former employee of the Circuit Court Clerk's office under Clerk Jenny Anthony, posted a detailed public account on Facebook this week identifying herself as one of those 23 departures. Her account doesn't read like a disgruntled exit. It reads like a record.
She says she left because of two things: a policy that treated vulnerable families as a low priority, and a leadership style that made fairness optional.
Family Treatment Court Orders Were Deprioritized
Dixon says that after returning from a leave of absence to care for her son during a serious medical situation, she found the office had changed. The specific change she names:
"I was instructed to de-prioritize orders from Family Treatment Court, with the explanation that the office 'wasn't paid' to process them and that they should be handled last."
Family Treatment Court orders aren't administrative paperwork. They govern custody visits, family reunification, and the legal milestones that parents in addiction recovery must clear to be with their children again. Putting those orders at the back of the line -- because the office decided it wasn't compensated to handle them -- means families waited longer for outcomes they had already earned.
Dixon made that plain: "These aren't just cases. They are mothers and fathers fighting -- just like I was -- for their children."
On one occasion, a request to send a clerk to a Family Treatment Court graduation to hand a parent their final custody order was denied by leadership. Dixon says the request was called "extremely unnecessary."
The Conduct She Witnessed
Dixon also describes the leadership environment that led her to leave. She says a workplace issue involving her was handled on a one-sided account, without any effort to hear her side. Rather than a private conversation, she says she was publicly confronted, yelled at, and humiliated in front of coworkers and members of the public.
Her assessment: leadership allowed ego to outweigh professionalism and service.
That is her account. Jenny Anthony has not responded to Unfiltered's request to appear on the show. Anthony has not had the opportunity to respond to Dixon's specific allegations on record. If she does, Unfiltered will report it.
What the Number Means Now
When Unfiltered first reported that 23 of 25 positions in the Circuit Court Clerk's office had turned over since 2021, the number raised a question the data alone couldn't answer: what were people leaving?
Dixon's account gives that question a specific, named answer. A policy that deprioritized the most vulnerable cases the office handles. A workplace where humiliation was a management tool. A gap between what the office is supposed to do and what it chose to do.
Twenty-three people left. Dixon is the first to say publicly what she found when she was there.
The Republican Primary for Coffee County Circuit Court Clerk is on the ballot this May. Dixon has endorsed challenger Kelsie Parks Adams.
Unfiltered reached out to Jenny Anthony requesting she appear on the show. No response has been received. Dixon's account was posted publicly on Facebook and is fully attributable to her.
