Each trial court judge shall continue to be officially known and designated as either a chancellor, circuit court judge, criminal court judge, or law and equity court judge, depending upon the position to which the chancellor or judge was elected or appointed prior to June 1, 1984. Any judge or chancellor may exercise by interchange, appointment, or designation the jurisdiction of any trial court other than that to which the judge or chancellor was elected or appointed.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-2-502
Titles of judges — Jurisdiction
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Dupuis v. Hand (1991)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Charlotte Lynn Frazier And Andrea Parks (September 2018)
Acts 1984, ch. 931, § 2.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.