Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-2-307 (2026)
Summoning jurors
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) The sheriff shall summon jurors by first class mail sent to the regular address of each member of the jury pool, giving notice of such person's selection for jury duty. The summons shall be mailed to the regular address at least ten (10) days prior to the date fixed for such person's appearance for jury service.
- (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the sheriff may summon jurors by personal service.
- (c) The jury coordinator shall provide sufficient information regarding the members of the jury pool to enable the sheriff to summon the jurors pursuant to this section.
- (d) Notwithstanding subsections (a)-(c), the jury coordinator may, at the coordinator's discretion, summon the jurors by first class mail without the assistance of the sheriff.
Acts 2008, ch. 1159, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1993–1998 · leading case: Eddins v. Geneva Pharm., Inc., 877 F. Supp. 413 (E.D. Tenn. 1993).
Eddins v. Geneva Pharm., Inc., 877 F. Supp. 413 (E.D. Tenn. 1993). “Plaintiff alleges that he had a legal and civic duty to honor the summons to report for jury duty and had plaintiff failed to appear he would have been subject to arrest and could have been held in contempt of court and fined pursuant to section 22-2-307, Tennessee Code…”
State v. Pat Bondurant (Death Penalty) (Tenn. Crim. App. 1998). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 22-2-307 (b) (1980). (21) Because no writs of scire fa cias we re issue d, the trial cou rt failed to examine those persons served with a scire facias as to the sufficiency of their excuse and failed to hold those persons with insufficient excuse in contempt of…”
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