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On February 13, 1801, in the famous "Midnight Judges" Act of 1801, 2 Stat. 89, Congress abolished the U.S. district court in Tennessee, [4] and expanded the number of circuits to six, provided for independent circuit court judgeships, and abolished the necessity of Supreme Court Justices riding the circuits. It was this legislation which ...
While the Chancery Court and Tennessee's Circuit Court, the court of general civil and criminal jurisdiction, [3] may share a set of procedural rules in each county, there are some distinct rules applying to the separate courts. [5] [6] Parties in the Chancery Court are entitled to have a jury try issues of material fact. [7] In 2015, Tennessee ...
Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located in the southern part of East Tennessee on the border with Georgia . As of the 2020 census , the population was 366,207, [ 3 ] making it the fourth-most populous county in Tennessee.
The Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse was constructed in 1932–1933 as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. Designed jointly by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and Reuben Harrison Hunt (1862–1937), [3] it was Hunt's last major work, coming at the end of a career that spanned more than five decades.
The Hamilton County Courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee, designed by architect R.H. Hunt, was constructed in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] It is three stories upon a basement. [2]
Location of Hamilton County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hamilton County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
The designation of a wet county applies to jurisdictions where the sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages is permitted – 10 out of Tennessee's 95 counties are wet. The state's four largest cities, Memphis (Shelby), Nashville (Davidson), Knoxville (Knox), and Chattanooga (Hamilton), are located in wet counties. Cumberland County; Davidson County
Ural B. Adams: [10] First African American male to serve as the Public Defender of Shelby County, Tennessee (1979) Floyd Peete: [10] First African American male to serve as the Chancellor of Shelby County Chancery Court (1990) Tarik Sugarmon: [32] First African American male to serve as a juvenile court judge in Shelby County, Tennessee (2022)