{"county":"Shelby","description":"Chancellors are the judges of the Shelby County Chancery Court, a court of equity that hears matters including divorces, enforcement of trusts and contracts, delinquent property-tax sales, enforcement of arbitration awards, writs of mandamus, removal of public officers, and other equitable claims. Shelby County elects three chancellors, each presiding over a numbered Part. **Part 2** is one of those seats. Chancellors serve partisan eight-year terms.","district":"shelby","districtgroup":"county","id":47,"key":"chancellor_part_2","lastchangeby":null,"name":"Jim Kyle","next_election":"2022-11-08","notes":"57","officegroup":"chancery_court","partisan":0,"party":"","qualities":"- Hears equity matters in a Tennessee chancery court: contracts, real-property disputes, divorces (in counties without a separate domestic-relations division), trusts and estates, and other actions traditionally outside the law side of court.\n- Judicial temperament: the willingness to listen, deliberate, and apply the law dispassionately to people whose lives are deeply affected by the outcome.\n- Impartiality and ethics under the Tennessee Rules of Judicial Conduct, including disqualification when conflicts arise.\n- Working knowledge of the substantive and procedural law applied in the assigned court (cited per court below) and the published precedent that controls.\n- Docket management \u2014 moving cases efficiently while honoring due process and the time pressures that fall on litigants and witnesses.\n- Clear written and oral explanation of rulings, so the parties and the public can follow the reasoning.","quantity":1,"source":null,"state":"TN","term_end":"2030-09-01","term_start":"2022-09-01","term_years":8,"terms":[],"title":"Chancellor Part 2","type":"judicial","url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-04-25 19:49:19"}