Local Rules of Court: Tennessee

The courts of Tennessee have local rules, these are links to those rule provided by the Tennessee Adminsitrative Office of the Courts.

Local Rules of Practice

The listing provided by this page may not comprise the entirety of local rules of practice, but reflect only the rules that have been provided to this site by the listed districts. Additional rules may be obtained from the court clerks' offices in each district or county.

• 1st District (PDF) 
  (Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, Washington Counties)
• 2nd District
  (Sullivan County) Effective July 2007
• 3rd District (Hancock, Hawkins, Hamblen, Greene Counties)
  • Circuit Court Rules
    Appendices F, G, H (Excel format) 
    Appendix J
  • Chancery Court Rules
• 4th District
  (Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson, Sevier Counties)
  • Criminal Court Rules
  • Circuit Court Rules (Civil)
  • Chancery Court Rules
• 5th District (Blount County)
  Circuit Court Divisions I and II, and Chancery Court for Blount County Cases Only (PDF)
• 6th District (Knox County)
  Chancery Court Rules - March 2009 
  Changes effective 2007
• 7th District (Anderson County)
• 8th District 
  (Campbell, Claiborne, Fentress, Scott, Union Counties)
  • Chancery Court
  • Civil Court
  • Criminal Court
• 9th District
  (Loudon, Meigs, Morgan, Roane)
• 10th District (Bradley, McMinn, Monroe,Polk Counties)
• 11th District (Hamilton County)
  • Criminal Rules
  • Civil Rule
  • January 2009 - Newly Enacted Hamilton County Local Rule 10.06 Family Law Mediation

• 12th District
  (Bledsoe, Franklin, Grundy, Marion, Rhea, Sequatchie Counties)
• 13th District
  (Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, White Counties)
  
  • Chancery Rules
  • Circuit Rules
• 14th District (Coffee County)
• 15th District
  (Jackson, Macon, Smith, Trousdale, Wilson)
• 16th District
  (Rutherford, Cannon)
  • Chancery & Circuit Courts
  • Juvenile Court - Rutherford County
• 17th District
  (Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore Counties)
• 18th District (Sumner County)
• 19th District 
  (Montgomery, Robertson Counties)
  • Chancery Court Rules
  • Circuit Court Rules
• 20th District (Davidson County)
  Juvenile Court Rules
• 21st District
  (Hickman, Lewis, Perry & Williamson Counties)
• 22nd District
  (Giles, Lawrence, Maury, Wayne Counties)
• 23rd District
  (Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys and Stewart Counties )
• 24th District
  (Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Hardin and Henry Counties)
• 25th District 
  (Fayette, Hardeman, Lauderdale, McNairy, Tipton Counties)
  
  • Circuit Court
  • Chancery Court
• 26th District
  (Madison, Chester, Henderson Counties) 
  
  • Circuit Court
  • Chancery Court
  • General Sessions Court
  • Juvenile Court

 

• 27th District
  (Obion & Weakley Counties)
• 28th District
  (Crockett, Gibson, Haywood Counties) 
  
  • Chancery (updated May 18, 2009)
  • Circuit
• 29th District - In Chancery and Circuit Courts - Revised 2007 
  (Lake & Dyer Counties)
• 30th District (Shelby County)
  General Sessions Court 
  Civil Division
  Criminal Division
• Probate Court
• Chancery Court
• Circuit Court
• CriminalCourt

• 31st District
  (Van Buren, Warren)