A state board that oversees the conduct of judges has dismissed a complaint against Nashville Judge Rachel Bell.

Tommy Craig, of White Bluff, filed the complaint in June, listing among his concerns that Bell started court late and took long breaks to take pictures with students.

Craig, who had a contract dispute case before Bell, told The Tennessean that earlier this month the Board of Judicial Conduct sent him a letter dismissing the complaint.

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The board believed he was angry about the outcome of his own case, Craig said.

"They said I was unhappy about the outcome," he said in a text message. "I was and still am."

But now, he's upset with how the conduct investigation unfolded.

"They never contacted my lawyer," he said. "How can they conclude (an) investigation without talking to him or addressing my specific concerns?"

Bell on Monday provided a copy of a letter she received from the board, which says the panel dismissed the complaint and closed the judicial conduct investigation. The letter also indicates the board's investigator had filed a separate complaint against the judge, which was also dismissed.

In an email, Bell declined to comment further. She has previously denied the allegations in the complaint as frivolous.

Bell has been a judge since 2012 and was re-elected to an eight-year term in 2014. As one of the city's 11 General Sessions judges, she earns $170,000 a year and hears a mix of misdemeanor criminal and minor civil cases.

Craig filed his complaint one month after a public defender and another judge raised concern about Bell's schedule.

Bell has said she does not start court until 10:30 a.m., though most other judges begin at 9 a.m., in part because of Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for Type I diabetes. She also says some cases are able to be resolved in that time.

But another judge said Bell showed a "cavalier attitude" in how she ran her courtroom one day in 2016 when she did not start hearing cases until after 11 a.m. Because Bell had to leave early to teach a school class, a man was left in jail for 24 days without a hearing that court rules recommend should happen in 10 days.

The Tennessean first reported that story and found in an investigation that Bell was signing off on orders committing people to mental health treatment against their will and without hearing the evidence herself.

Bell's rearranged work schedule regularly left citizens waiting in her courtroom, and an analysis showed police officers spent more time waiting on her than on other judges.

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Reach Stacey Barchenger at sbarchenger@tennessean.com or 615-726-8968 and on Twitter @sbarchenger.