28 U.S.C. § 123 : US Code - Section 123: Tennessee

Search 28 U.S.C. § 123 : US Code - Section 123: Tennessee

Tennessee is divided into three judicial districts to be known as
the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Tennessee.
EASTERN DISTRICT
(a) The Eastern District comprises four divisions.
(1) The Northern Division comprises the counties of Anderson,
Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Jefferson, Knox,
Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union.
Court for the Northern Division shall be held at Knoxville.
(2) The Northeastern Division comprises the counties of
Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson,
Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington.
Court for the Northeastern Division shall be held at
Greenville.
(3) The Southern Division comprises the counties of Bledsoe,
Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Polk, Rhea, and
Sequatchie.
Court for the Southern Division shall be held at Chattanooga.
(4) The Winchester Division comprises the counties of
Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Grundy, Lincoln, Moore, Van
Buren, and Warren.
Court for the Winchester Division shall be held at
Winchester.
MIDDLE DISTRICT
(b) The Middle District comprises three divisions.
(1) The Nashville Division comprises the counties of Cannon,
Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys,
Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Stewart, Sumner,
Trousdale, Williamson, and Wilson.
Court for the Nashville Division shall be held at Nashville.
(2) The Northeastern Division comprises the counties of Clay,
Cumberland, De Kalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton,
Pickett, Putnam, Smith, and White.
Court for the Northeastern Division shall be held at
Cookeville.
(3) The Columbia Division comprises the counties of Giles,
Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, and Wayne.
Court for the Columbia Division shall be held at Columbia.
WESTERN DISTRICT
(c) The Western District comprises two divisions.
(1) The Eastern Division comprises the counties of Benton,
Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Gibson, Hardeman,
Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Lake, McNairy, Madison,
Obion, Perry, and Weakley.
The Eastern Division also includes the waters of Tennessee River
to low-water mark on the eastern shore wherever such river forms
the boundary between the western and middle districts from the
north line of Alabama north to the point in Henry County,
Tennessee, where the south boundary of Kentucky strikes the east
bank of the river.
Court for the Eastern Division shall be held at Jackson.
(2) The Western Division comprises the counties of Dyer,
Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby, and Tipton.
Court for the Western Division shall be held at Memphis and
Dyersburg.
The district judge for the Eastern District in office on November
27, 1940, shall hold court in the Northern and Northeastern
Divisions. The other judge of that district shall hold the terms of
court in the Southern and Winchester Divisions. Each may appoint
and remove all officers and employees of the court whose official
headquarters are located in the divisions within which he holds
court and whose appointments are vested by law in a district judge
or chief judge of a district.