§123 Tennessee

Summary

Tennessee is split into three federal judicial districts called the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts. The Eastern District has four divisions: Northern (Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union) with court at Knoxville; Northeastern (Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington) with court at Greenville; Southern (Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Polk, Rhea, and Sequatchie) with court at Chattanooga; and Winchester (Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Grundy, Lincoln, Moore, Van Buren, and Warren) with court at Winchester. The Middle District has three divisions: Nashville (Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson, and Wilson) with court at Nashville; Northeastern (Clay, Cumberland, De Kalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Smith, and White) with court at Cookeville; and Columbia (Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, and Wayne) with court at Columbia. The Western District has two divisions: Eastern (Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Lake, McNairy, Madison, Obion, Perry, and Weakley, and the waters of the Tennessee River to the low-water mark on the eastern shore where that 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) with courts at Jackson and Dyersburg; and Western (Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby, and Tipton) with court at Memphis. The judge for the Eastern District who was in office on November 27, 1940 must hold court in the Northern and Northeastern Divisions. The other judge must hold court in the Southern and Winchester Divisions. Each of those judges may appoint and remove the court officers and employees whose main offices are in the divisions where that judge holds court, when the law gives that power to a district judge or chief judge.