Tennessee Court of Appeals
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The Tennessee Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court in Tennessee.
Created by the General Assembly in 1925, the Court of Appeals hears appeals in civil—or non-criminal—cases from trial courts and certain state boards and commissions. The court has twelve members who sit in panels of three in Jackson, Knoxville and Nashville. All decisions made by the Court of Appeals may be appealed, by permission, to the Tennessee Supreme Court. As in all three appellate courts, Court of Appeals hearings do not include witnesses, juries or testimonies. Instead, attorneys present oral and written arguments.[1]
Court of Appeals judges
Court of Appeals judges are elected on a “yes-no” ballot every eight years. When a vacancy occurs on the intermediate appellate court, the 17-member Judicial Selection Commission interviews applicants and recommends three candidates to the governor, who appoints a new judge to serve until the next August general election.
As with the justices of the Tennessee Supreme Court and the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals, judges of the Tennessee Court of Appeals must, by state law, be evaluated every eight years. The evaluations are then published in newspapers across the state to help voters decide whether the judges should be retained.
- William Frank Crawford
- Alan E. Highers
- Herschel P. Franks
- Patricia J. Cottrell
- Charles D. Susano, Jr.
- Sharon G. Lee
- Richard H. Dinkins
- D. Michael Swiney
- Andy D. Bennett
- Holly M. Kirby
- David R. Farmer
- Frank G. Clement
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