Tennessee Court of Appeals

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The Tennessee Court of Appeals is an intermediate appellate court in Tennessee. It hears appeals of civil cases; the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals of criminal cases.

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]

Current judges

Tennessee Court of Appeals judges, seated (from left to right): David Farmer, Patricia Cottrell, Herschel Franks, Alan Highers, Charles Susano; standing (from left to right): Holly Kirby, Richard Dinkins, Andy Bennett, John McClarty, Frank Clement, D. Michael Swiney, and J. Steven Stafford.

There are 12 members of the Court of Appeals. They 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.

Former judges

• William Frank Crawford

External links

• Tennessee Court of Appeals

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v • d • e Tennessee Court of Appeals
Current	Alan Highers  •  Herschel Franks  •  Patricia Cottrell  •  Charles Susano  •  Richard Dinkins  •  D. Michael Swiney  •  Andy Bennett  •  Holly Kirby  •  David Farmer  •  Frank Clement  •  Thomas T. Woodall  •  James Witt  •  John Everett Williams  •  Robert Wedemeyer  •  Joseph Tipton  •  D. Kelly Thomas  •  Jerry L. Smith  •  Norma McGee Ogle  •  Camille McMullen  •  Alan Glenn  •  Jeff Bivins  •  J. Steven Stafford  •  John McClarty  •
Former	William Koch  •  Gary R. Wade  •  Martha Daughtrey  •  Sharon Lee  •  William Frank Crawford  •  David Welles  •  J.C. McLin  •