Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-16-106 (2026)
Practice of law by judge
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) The county judge is not precluded from practicing in the supreme, chancery, circuit, and criminal courts of this state, but shall not act as counsel in any case going up from the judge's court.
- (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of:
not less than
not more than
12,800
12,900
27,100
27,200
43,100
43,200
62,300
62,400
182,000
182,100
- (c) In counties having a population of not less than thirty-nine thousand fifty (39,050) nor more than thirty-nine thousand one hundred fifty (39,150), according to the 2000 federal census of population or any subsequent federal census, the circuit court clerk, who also serves as the general sessions court clerk, shall serve as the clerk of the court with probate jurisdiction in any such counties.
Code 1858, § 4200 (deriv. Acts 1855-1856, ch. 253, § 12); Shan., § 6026; Code 1932, § 10224; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 16-708; Acts 2003, ch. 310, §§ 1, 6-10; 2005, ch. 24, §§ 1, 2.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2001–2001 · leading case: State of Tennessee v. Roy B. Lipford, 67 S.W.3d 79 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2001).
State of Tennessee v. Roy B. Lipford, 67 S.W.3d 79 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2001). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 16-16-106 has no application to the case at bar.”
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