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Tennessee Chancery Courts

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The Tennessee Chancery Courts are trial courts of general jurisdiction in Tennessee. In general, they share jurisdiction with the Tennessee Circuit Courts. There is a chancery court in each of the state's 31 judicial districts.^[1]

Methods of selection and judge terms

The judge who presides over a chancery court is referred to as a "chancellor". Chancellors are elected in partisan elections for eight-year terms.

Courts

Chancery Court	Counties Served
First District Chancery Court	Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, and Washington counties
Second District Chancery Court	Sullivan County
Third District Chancery Court	Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, and Hawkins counties
Fourth District Chancery Court	Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson, and Sevier counties
Fifth District Chancery Court	Blount County
Sixth District Chancery Court	Knox County
Seventh District Chancery Court	Anderson County
Eighth District Chancery Court	Campbell, Claiborne, Fentress, Scott, and Union counties
Ninth District Chancery Court	Loudon, Meigs, Morgan, and Roane counties
Tenth District Chancery Court	Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, and Polk counties
Eleventh District Chancery Court	Hamilton County
Twelfth District Chancery Court	Bledsoe, Franklin, Grundy, Marion, Rhea, and Sequatchie countries
Thirteenth District Chancery Court	Clay, Cumberland, Dekalb, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, and White counties
Fourteenth District Chancery Court	Coffee county
Fifteenth District Chancery Court	Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale, and Wilson counties
Sixteenth District Chancery Court	Cannon and Rutherford counties
Seventeenth District Chancery Court	Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall, and Moore counties
Eighteenth District Chancery Court	Sumner County
Nineteenth District Chancery Court	Montgomery and Robertson counties
Twentieth District Chancery Court	Davidson County
Twenty First District Chancery Court	Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Williamson counties
Twenty Second District Chancery Court	Giles, Lawrence, Maury, and Wayne counties
Twenty Third District Chancery Court	Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, and Stewart counties
Twenty Fourth District Chancery Court	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Hardin, and Henry counties
Twenty Fifth District Chancery Court	Fayette, Hardeman, Lauderdale, McNairy, and Tipton counties
Twenty Sixth District Chancery Court	Chester, Henderson, and Madison counties
Twenty Seventh District Chancery Court	Obion and Weakley counties
Twenty Eighth District Chancery Court	Crockett, Gibson, and Haywood counties
Twenty Ninth District Chancery Court	Dyer and Lake counties
Thirtieth District Chancery Court	Shelby County
Thirty First District Chancery Court	Van Buren and Warren counties

External links

Footnotes

↑ Tennessee State Courts, "About the Trial Courts," accessed June 9, 2014

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Tennessee Chancery Courts

Methods of selection and judge terms

Courts

See also

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