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About Tennessee Court Docket

Tennessee court records sit with different custodians. The statewide Public Case History (PCH) searches appeals in the state's three appellate courts, while local trial clerks keep the docket sheets for cases filed in their courts. Tennessee has no single public trial search that gathers every county docket. This private reference site points readers to PCH for an appeal, explains the court structure, and routes trial-record questions to the local clerk. That statewide-to-county path helps distinguish an appellate history from the underlying trial register and file.

Why We Built This Site

Tennessee's appellate case history and its trial dockets are separate records. PCH, called “Appellate Case Search,” covers the Tennessee Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Court of Criminal Appeals. It does not search unappealed cases across county trial courts. The trial docket is the running register of filings, hearings, and actions kept by the clerk for the court that opened the case. A Circuit Court Clerk commonly serves Circuit and General Sessions, but some records belong to a separate Criminal Court Clerk, Clerk and Master, Juvenile Clerk, Probate Clerk, or municipal clerk. This page explains that division and routes readers to the county directory for the local court and clerk.

What You Will Find Here

  • How courts connect: a statewide overview of the Tennessee court system and the courts that keep different dockets
  • Case lookup: where case searches work for appellate cases and where trial searches remain local
  • Court records: how to request a record or certified copy from its custodian
  • Criminal and civil dockets: how criminal dockets and civil dockets are organized and read in Tennessee
  • Hearing settings: how the court calendar may differ from the case register and how to confirm a date
  • Local routing: Counties helps identify the trial court and clerk named on a case paper

What We Cannot Do

This is a privately run reference site, not a Tennessee court, clerk's office, or state agency. Its role has limits:

  • It cannot issue a certified docket, order, or court document
  • It cannot change, continue, or reset a Tennessee court date
  • It cannot retrieve or amend a clerk's official case file
  • It cannot seal or remove a case from a court docket
  • It cannot give legal advice about a charge, deadline, or order
  • It cannot promise that local fees, office details, or calendar entries remain current

An official copy comes from the clerk that holds the record. That may be a county trial clerk or the appellate clerk for an appeal; this reference site can point to the route but cannot issue the document.

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