{"county":"Shelby","description":null,"district":"shelby","districtgroup":"county","id":60,"key":"criminal_court_div_10","lastchangeby":null,"name":"Jennifer Johnson Mitchell","next_election":"2022-11-08","notes":"70","officegroup":"criminal_court","partisan":null,"party":null,"qualities":"- Trial-court judge in Tennessee criminal court: presides over felony cases \u2014 indictments, pretrial motions, jury trials, sentencing under TCA Title 40.\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":null,"source":null,"state":"TN","term_end":"2030-09-01","term_start":"2022-09-01","term_years":8,"terms":[{"current":1,"description":"","electiondate":"2022-08-06","name":"Jennifer Johnson Mitchell","person":{"biography":"Jennifer Johnson Mitchell has been the Judge for Criminal Court Div. 10 since 2018. Prior to this she was a practicing defense attorney.  Her primary focus has been criminal defense where she has served her clients with sound legal representation.  She has had her own practice, The Law Office of Jennifer Johnson Mitchell, PLLC, since 2014.  She began her legal career with the Office of the Shelby County Public Defender in 2001 where she served the indigent community for 13 years litigating cases of all types.   \nJennifer has served this community in some capacity all of her adult life.  Prior to law school she was employed with Youth Villages foster care and residential programs where she worked with at-risk youth.  She was also employed at the Shelby County Correctional Center working in women\u2019s treatment.  She has also worked with the chronically mentally ill population helping them attain necessary services. \nShe received her law degree from Cecil C. Humphrey\u2019s School of Law in 2001.  She also attained a Master\u2019s Degree from The University of Memphis in Criminal Justice in 1993 and a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 1992.  She attended high school at Memphis Catholic High School. \nJennifer is a life-long Memphian who cares about the community and its people.  She is the wife of Tony Mitchell, Sr. and the mother of 5 children.  She is active in the community serving on different boards and an active member of her church, Oak Grove MBC.","firstname":"Jennifer","lastname":"Mitchell","middlename":"Johnson","token":"l5BlDyEWVZ"},"term_end":"2030-09-01","term_start":"2022-09-01"}],"title":"Criminal Court Div 10","type":null,"url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-04-25 19:49:19"}