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The Supreme Court's three buildings are seated in Nashville, Knoxville, and Jackson, Tennessee. The Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, and four justices. As of September 1, 2023, the chief justice is Holly M. Kirby. [1] Unlike other states, in which the state attorney general is directly elected or appointed by the governor or ...
The building, across from the Tennessee State Capitol at the corner of Charlotte Avenue and 7th Avenue North, was completed in 1937. Before its construction, the Supreme Court had occupied space in the Capitol. [2] [3] The four-story building was designed by Nashville architects Marr & Holman in a style known as Stripped Classicism.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee is the state's highest court in the state. The Supreme Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, and four justices. The incumbent Chief Justice is Holly M. Kirby. [9] No more than two justices can be from the same Grand Division. As of September 1, 2024, the justices of the Tennessee Supreme Court are:
Her Supreme Court service began in September 2005. [3] In June 2006, the judicial retention commission recommended her for a full eight-year term on the Supreme Court. Her retention in office was approved by Tennessee voters in August 2006. [5] [6] Clark served as chief justice from September 1, 2010, until September 1, 2012. [5]
Following law school, Campbell served as a law clerk to Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Associate Justice Samuel Alito of the Supreme Court of the United States. [2] Campbell then worked as an associate at Williams & Connolly until 2015. [citation needed]
Tennessee's Chancery Court was created in the first half of the 19th Century, and remains one of the few distinctly separate courts of equity in the United States. [4] 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 ...
On February 2, 2023, Governor Bill Lee nominated Tarwater to serve as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the upcoming retirement of Justice Sharon G. Lee on August 31, 2023. [5] On March 9, 2023, his nomination was confirmed by the Tennessee General Assembly. His term began on September 1, 2023. [6] [7]
First African American male (Chief Justice; Tennessee Supreme Court): A. A. Birch Jr. (1956) in 1994 [8] [9] First African American male (Tennessee Court of Appeals): Richard Dinkins in 2008 [14] First Hispanic American male (trial court judge): Hector Sanchez in 2022 [15]