Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 17-1-206 (2026)
Marriage rites
✓ current as of May 2026
The several judges and chancellors of this state, including retired chancellors and retired judges of courts of record of this state and persons who were members of quarterly county courts or county commissions on August 1, 1984, are authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony. For the purposes of this section, the several judges of the United States courts who are citizens of Tennessee are deemed to be judges of this state.
Code 1858, § 3949 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 168, § 4); Shan., § 5753; Code 1932, § 9949; Acts 1965, ch. 11, § 1; 1973, ch. 66, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 17-111; Acts 1985, ch. 223, §§ 1, 2; 2003, ch. 376, §§ 1, 2.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case (1 in the last 5 years), 2025–2025 · leading case: Thomas Patterson v. Tennessee Dep't of Saf. & Homeland Sec. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2025).
Thomas Patterson v. Tennessee Dep't of Saf. & Homeland Sec. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2025). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 17-1-206 . The categories of judges specifically listed in the chapter are: “judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, court of criminal appeals, chancery courts, circuit courts, criminal courts, and courts exercising the jurisdiction imposed in one (1)…”
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