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Former federal courts of Tennessee. United States District Court for the District of Tennessee (subdivided, as three districts, in 1862) References
Tennessee Chancery and Probate Courts; Tennessee Code Commission; Tennessee Court of Appeals; Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals; Tennessee Court of Errors and Appeals; Tennessee Plan; Tennessee Supreme Court
The Tennessee Supreme Court is the highest court in the state of Tennessee. 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]
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Tennessee.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals (in case citation, Tenn. Ct. App.) was created in 1925 by the Tennessee General Assembly as an intermediate appellate court to hear appeals in civil cases from the Tennessee state trial courts. Appeals of judgments made by the Court of Appeals may be made to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (in case citations, M.D. Tenn.) is the federal trial court for most of Middle Tennessee.Based at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Nashville, it was created in 1839 when Congress added a third district to the state.
This list includes Judges of the Tennessee Superior Court (1796–1809) and Judges of the Tennessee Court of Errors and Appeals (1810-1835). [1] These high courts were created before the 1835 Tennessee constitution, which established the Supreme Court and made the Judiciary an independent branch of government.
First African American male (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee): Odell Horton (1956) in 1980 [16]First African American male (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee): Curtis L. Collier in 1995