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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 ...
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 ...
Lalla Block Arnstein: [50] First female magistrate in Knox County, Tennessee (1924) Charme P. Allen: [51] First female to serve as the District Attorney for Knox County, Tennessee (2014) Sue Shelton White: [52] First female lawyer in Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee; Dabney Anderson: [53] First female magistrate of the Maury County Quarterly ...
Mike Hammond, Knox County's criminal court clerk, has signaled his intention to run for Knox County mayor in 2026, setting up a Republican primary with At-Large Commissioner Larsen Jay.. Knox ...
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The building continues to operate as a branch post office, and the courthouse section now houses the Tennessee State Criminal Court of Appeals and the eastern division of the Tennessee Supreme Court. [3] The post office is twice mentioned in Cormac McCarthy's 1979 novel, Suttree. In one instance, the title character traverses the building's ...
The "third" Knox County Courthouse (1842–1886), which stood on Main across the street from the present courthouse. Knox County's second courthouse was built about 1797. [7] This second courthouse was the setting for the George Washington Harris short story, "Eaves-Dropping a Lodge of Free-Masons." Harris described the "old stone Court-house ...