Any vacancy in the office of supreme court or appeals court judge shall be filled by a person residing in the grand division of the state in which the vacancy occurs.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-48-109
Judicial vacancies filled from same grand division
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Holder v. Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission (1996)
Most recently applied in Holder v. Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission (October 1996)
Acts 1870, ch. 23, § 8; Shan., § 1156; mod
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