Title 28 › Part PART I— - ORGANIZATION OF COURTS › Chapter CHAPTER 5— - DISTRICT COURTS › § 123
Divides Tennessee into three federal judicial districts called the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts. The Eastern District has four divisions (Northern, Northeastern, Southern, Winchester) with courts in Knoxville, Greenville, Chattanooga, and Winchester. The Middle District has three divisions (Nashville, Northeastern, Columbia) with courts in Nashville, Cookeville, and Columbia. The Western District has two divisions (Eastern and Western). Its courts sit at Jackson and Dyersburg for the Eastern Division and at Memphis for the Western Division. The Eastern Division of the Western District also includes the waters of the Tennessee River up to the low-water mark on the eastern shore where the river forms the boundary between the western and middle districts from the north line of Alabama north to the point in Henry County where Kentucky’s south boundary meets the east bank of the river. The judge who was serving in the Eastern District on November 27, 1940 must hold court in the Northern and Northeastern Divisions. The other judge in that district must hold court in the Southern and Winchester Divisions. Each of those judges may hire and fire court officers and employees whose work headquarters are in the divisions where that judge holds court, if the law gives that appointment power to a district judge or chief judge.
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28 U.S.C. § 123
Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73