{"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":[{"current":1,"description":"","electiondate":"2022-08-04","name":"Joe Jenkins","person":{"biography":"Joe Jenkins is a judge for Part III of the 30th Judicial District Chancery Court in Tennessee. Jenkins assumed office on September 1, 2016. Jenkins' current term ends on September 1, 2030.\n\nJenkins ran for re-election for the Part III judge of the 30th Judicial District Chancery Court in Tennessee. Jenkins won in the general election on August 4, 2022.","firstname":"Joe","lastname":"Jenkins","token":"qk1tjfh3EG"},"term_end":"2030-09-01","term_start":"2022-09-01"}],"title":"Chancellor Part 3","type":"judicial","url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-04-25 19:49:19"}