{"county":"Shelby","description":"","district":"shelby","districtgroup":"county","id":48,"key":"chancellor_part_3","lastchangeby":null,"name":"Joe Jenkins","next_election":"2022-11-08","notes":"58","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 3","type":"judicial","url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-04-25 19:49:19"}