{ "title": "Where Tennessee probate is filed, by county", "description": "The office that receives probate filings in each of Tennessee's 95 counties, with the officeholder and the number that reaches them. Compiled from each county's own published pages and from the private acts and general statutes that decide which office has the duty.", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "attribution": "estate.handofdavid.com", "source": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/data/", "methodology": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/how-this-is-checked/", "last_verified": "2026-10-27", "county_count": 95, "caveats": [ "Two counties are unsettled in state law and are marked settled=false. In those, a county private act and the general statute point at different offices, or a court is mid-transition, and no public record resolves it.", "Phone numbers proved the most durable field and addresses the least. Addresses are given only in notes, and only where a county's own site publishes them.", "Where a compiled private act and a county's own current website disagree, this follows the website, because it describes what happens at the counter." ], "counties": [ { "county": "Anderson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Hal Cousins", "phone": "865-457-6205", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Bedford", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Angela Hayes", "phone": "931-684-1672", "notes": "The published fee schedule dates from 2017. Ask for the current cost.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/bedford-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Benton", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Carly Bayless", "phone": "731-584-4435", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Bledsoe", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Tyler DeBord", "phone": "423-447-2484", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Blount", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Stephen Ogle", "phone": "865-273-5500", "notes": "A General Sessions judge sits in probate, and the Clerk and Master clerks that docket. Fees from 01/01/2026: $345.00 for a small estate, a full administration, or muniment of title; $431.40 with creditor notice. Cash, money order, cashier's check or a law firm check only, no cards.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Bradley", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Holly Thompson", "phone": "423-728-7204", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Campbell", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Dennis Potter", "phone": "423-562-3496", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Cannon", "office": "County Clerk", "office_code": "county_clerk", "officeholder": "Lana S. Jones, County Clerk", "phone": "615-563-4278", "notes": "County Clerk, under a population exemption at T.C.A. 18-6-106. The office's own page does not list probate, so confirm by phone. Closed Wednesday and Sunday; open Saturday morning.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Carroll", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Kenneth Todd", "phone": "731-986-1920", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Carter", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Andrew LaPorte", "phone": "423-542-1801", "notes": "Clerk and Master also serves as Clerk of the Probate Court. The county publishes 423-542-1801; an older 423-542-1812 appears nowhere on its page.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Cheatham", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Rhonda Vaughn", "phone": "615-792-4620", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Chester", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Keith Frye", "phone": "731-989-7171", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Claiborne", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Patricia Simmons", "phone": "423-626-3284", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Clay", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Rene Davis", "phone": "931-243-3145", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Cocke", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Craig Wild", "phone": "423-623-3321", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Coffee", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Sheila Proffitt", "phone": "931-723-5132", "notes": "E-filing through Tybera, but the original will must be physically delivered.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/coffee-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Crockett", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "James Stephenson", "phone": "731-696-5458", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Cumberland", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Benjamin Tollett", "phone": "931-484-4731", "notes": "Probate and Family Court; Clerk and Master is the clerk.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Davidson", "office": "Circuit Court Clerk", "office_code": "circuit_court_clerk", "officeholder": "Joseph P. Day", "phone": "615-862-5980", "notes": "Seventh Circuit Court, Probate Division. The Clerk and Master here does not take probate.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/davidson-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "DeKalb", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Nicole Wright", "phone": "615-597-4360", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Decatur", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Elizabeth Carpenter", "phone": "731-852-3422", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Dickson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Lynn Collins", "phone": "615-789-7011", "notes": "The county's Probate and Juvenile Court was never given jurisdiction over decedents' estates, only over juveniles, so estate filings go to the Clerk and Master. Do not call 615-789-5414, which is the General Sessions clerk.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Dyer", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Cindy Rose", "phone": "731-286-7818", "notes": "Probate Court under General Sessions; Clerk and Master is the clerk.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Fayette", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Amy Anderson", "phone": "901-465-5219", "notes": "Chancery Court lists open estates among its services, and the County Clerk lists no probate function at all. Fees are not published; call.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Fentress", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Linda Smith", "phone": "931-879-8615", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Franklin", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Katelyn Isbell", "phone": "931-967-2843", "notes": "Moved from General Sessions to Chancery effective July 1, 2014.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Gibson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Katelyn Orgain", "phone": "731-855-7639", "notes": "Two offices. Trenton is the county seat; Humboldt is 731-784-9551.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Giles", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Crystal Gibson Greene", "phone": "931-363-2620", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Grainger", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Vickie Greenlee", "phone": "865-828-4436", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Greene", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Bland Justis", "phone": "423-798-1742", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Grundy", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Megan Rollins", "phone": "931-692-3455", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Hamblen", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Teresa Carey", "phone": "423-586-9112", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Hamilton", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Rachael J. Kapperman", "phone": "423-209-6600", "notes": "Chancery Part 2. Probate hearings are by appointment only, Tuesday to Friday mornings.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/hamilton-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Hancock", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Thomas Harrison", "phone": "423-733-4524", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Hardeman", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Kim Paras", "phone": "731-658-3142", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Hardin", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Jennifer Fielder", "phone": "731-925-8166", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Hawkins", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Brent Price", "phone": "423-272-8150", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Haywood", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Felicia Bond", "phone": "731-772-0122", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Henderson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Leigh Milam", "phone": "731-968-2801", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Henry", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Albert Wade", "phone": "731-642-4234", "notes": "General Sessions; Clerk and Master since 2010.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Hickman", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Loren Roberts", "phone": "931-729-2522", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Houston", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Patsy Brooks", "phone": "931-289-3870", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Humphreys", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Mike Bullion", "phone": "931-296-2558", "notes": "The Probate and Juvenile Court was repealed effective 2022 and probate returned to chancery. Court offices sit in the Rawlings Building, 102 Thompson Street, though mail goes to the Court Square address.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Jackson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Sherrie Pippin-Loftis", "phone": "931-268-9516", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Jefferson", "office": "County Clerk", "office_code": "county_clerk", "officeholder": "Frank Herndon, County Clerk", "phone": "865-397-2935", "notes": "The County Clerk runs the probate section here, with its own intake form and fee schedule. Small estate $354.50, opening an estate $523.50, or $354.50 with no creditor notice. Open Saturday 8 to 11. Do not call 865-397-2404, which is the Clerk and Master.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Johnson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Sherrie Fenner", "phone": "423-727-7853", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Knox", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Houston S. Havasy", "phone": "865-215-2389", "notes": "Chancery Probate Division, Suite 352, a different counter from Chancery in Suite 125.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/knox-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Lake", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Amber Mooring", "phone": "731-253-8926", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Lauderdale", "office": "Call to confirm", "office_code": "unsettled", "officeholder": "Minnie Stowe", "phone": "731-635-1941", "notes": "This county is mid-transition. Private Acts of 2025 ch. 16 dissolves the Probate and Juvenile Court, but only when the sitting judge's full term expires, and separately permits the county commission to move the probate clerking at any time before that. No published record says whether it has. The 1982 act naming the County Clerk as probate clerk was left unamended and still stands on its face. Call the Clerk and Master at 731-635-1941 and ask whether estate petitions are being received there; if not, the County Clerk is 731-635-2561. Ask which building too, because the 2025 act ordered the court moved to the Justice Complex and three addresses are in circulation.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "false", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Lawrence", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Kristy Gang", "phone": "931-766-4182", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Lewis", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Kaitlin Bates", "phone": "931-796-3734", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Lincoln", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Rebecca Bartlett Carpenter", "phone": "931-433-1482", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Loudon", "office": "Probate Court Clerk", "office_code": "probate_court_clerk", "officeholder": "Steve Harrelson", "phone": "865-986-3505", "notes": "One officeholder is the Circuit, Criminal, Sessions, Juvenile and Probate Court Clerk. Probate is heard in General Sessions at the Justice Center in Lenoir City, 12680 Highway 11 West, Suite 3. Not the County Clerk and not the Clerk and Master.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Macon", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Kristin Reid", "phone": "615-666-2000", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Madison", "office": "Call to confirm", "office_code": "unsettled", "officeholder": "Sharon Perry-Brown", "phone": "731-423-6030", "notes": "Sources conflict and the county publishes nothing that settles it. One set of records puts probate in General Sessions Division II at the Juvenile Court Complex on Irby Street, with its own line at 731-988-3025. Call the Clerk and Master at 731-423-6030 and ask which office takes estate filings and in which building.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "false", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Marion", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Paige Mashburn", "phone": "423-942-2601", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Marshall", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Cecilia Spivy", "phone": "931-359-2181", "notes": "The separate Probate Court ceased to exist in 1997.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Maury", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Larry Roe Sr.", "phone": "931-375-1307", "notes": "Probate sits in Chancery. Fees from the schedule effective January 1, 2026: $456.50 to open with publication, $379.50 without, and $379.50 or $384.50 for a small estate. Go between 8:00 and 4:00; the 7:30 to 4:30 figure the county also publishes is staff hours. No e-filing, and a new estate cannot be opened by email or fax.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/maury-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "McMinn", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Patty Gaines", "phone": "423-745-1281", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "McNairy", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Kimberly Boals", "phone": "731-645-5446", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Meigs", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Donna Moore", "phone": "423-334-5243", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Monroe", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Teresa Choate", "phone": "423-442-2644", "notes": "Probate Court under a General Sessions judge; Clerk and Master since 1990.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Montgomery", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Heather L. Moore, JD", "phone": "931-648-5703", "notes": "A full administration requires an attorney here. The small estate exemption is the carve-out.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/montgomery-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Moore", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Tammy Roberts", "phone": "931-759-7028", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Morgan", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Angela Anderson", "phone": "423-346-3881", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Obion", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Emily Hall", "phone": "731-507-0999", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Overton", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Dorothy Stanton", "phone": "931-823-2536", "notes": "The office's own mailing line reads Probate and Juvenile Clerk. 100 E. Court Square, Suite 100, Livingston.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Perry", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Charlene Duplessis", "phone": "931-589-2217", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Pickett", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Leana Neal", "phone": "931-864-3359", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Polk", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Kimberly Ingram", "phone": "423-338-4522", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Putnam", "office": "Circuit Court Clerk", "office_code": "circuit_court_clerk", "officeholder": "Jennifer Wilkerson", "phone": "931-528-1508", "notes": "Probate Court under a General Sessions judge; the Circuit Court Clerk is the clerk.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Rhea", "office": "County Clerk", "office_code": "county_clerk", "officeholder": "Linda Shaver, County Clerk", "phone": "423-775-7808", "notes": "A 1982 act vests probate in General Sessions with the County Clerk as its clerk, and expressly divested the Clerk and Master. The county website is offline and two addresses circulate, so confirm the street address when you call.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Roane", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Pam May", "phone": "865-376-2487", "notes": "General Sessions; the Clerk and Master clerks probate specifically.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Robertson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Jon Graves", "phone": "615-384-5650", "notes": "Chancery Court, 422 West Court Square, Room 102, Springfield. Open 8:00 to 4:30, Monday to Friday.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/robertson-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Rutherford", "office": "County Clerk", "office_code": "county_clerk", "officeholder": "Lisa Duke Crowell", "phone": "615-898-7800", "notes": "General Sessions judges sit as Probate Judge, so filings go to the County Clerk rather than the Clerk and Master. This office runs four locations; probate is a Murfreesboro matter, at 319 N Maple Street. Careful with the county's own filing-fees page: that is the 2016 Chancery schedule and it does not govern probate here, which uses the County Clerk's schedule revised July 1 2018. 615-898-7800 is the number the county publishes. A direct probate line may exist but the county does not publish one, so ask for estates when you call.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/rutherford-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Scott", "office": "Call to confirm", "office_code": "unsettled", "officeholder": "Michael Potter", "phone": "423-663-2627", "notes": "Private Acts of 1982 ch. 383 vests all probate jurisdiction in General Sessions and names no clerk for it. Private Acts of 1951 ch. 657 makes the Circuit Court Clerk the clerk of General Sessions, which points one way. T.C.A. 18-6-106 points instead at the Clerk and Master. The county publishes nothing either way and the state's own compilation declines to name a current probate clerk, so both offices are legally defensible. Call the Clerk and Master at 423-663-2627 and the Circuit Court Clerk at 423-663-2440 and ask which one takes estate filings.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "false", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Sequatchie", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Sherry Brock", "phone": "423-949-3670", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Sevier", "office": "County Clerk", "office_code": "county_clerk", "officeholder": "Adra Rowland, County Clerk", "phone": "865-453-5502 opt. 5", "notes": "Probate is handled in-house by the County Clerk; ask for option 5. IMPORTANT: this county's published probate instructions state that filings must be prepared by a Tennessee-licensed attorney. No Tennessee statute requires counsel, so whether that is a local rule or a strong preference is the first thing to ask on the phone. Fees from 01/01/2026: $433.50 for a small estate, muniment, or probate without publication; $503.50 with publication.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Shelby", "office": "Probate Court Clerk", "office_code": "probate_court_clerk", "officeholder": "Eddie S. Jones, Jr.", "phone": "901-222-3750", "notes": "A standing Probate Court with its own elected clerk. Room 124, not the Clerk and Master in Room 308.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/shelby-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Smith", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Jessie Goad", "phone": "615-735-2092", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Stewart", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "April Turner", "phone": "931-232-5665", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Sullivan", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Katharine Jennell", "phone": "423-323-6483", "notes": "Chancery at Blountville specifically, not Kingsport.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Sumner", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Mark T. Smith", "phone": "615-451-6036", "notes": "No bags or purses clear security. The office moved to the new courthouse on East Main.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/sumner-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Tipton", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Gina Smith", "phone": "901-476-0210", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Trousdale", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Shelly Brawner", "phone": "615-374-2996", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Unicoi", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Teresa Simerly", "phone": "423-743-9541", "notes": "An Attorney General opinion issued about this county moved probate clerking off the County Clerk, and the Clerk and Master is where it lands. The County Clerk lists no probate function. Mail goes to PO Box 46, not the general county box. Confirm before filing.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Union", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Sandra Edmondson", "phone": "865-992-5942", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Van Buren", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Tina Shockley", "phone": "931-946-7175", "notes": "A 1986 act that would have moved probate to the General Sessions clerk was rejected by local voters and never took effect, so probate stayed in chancery. Confirm the street address when you call.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Warren", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Myra Mara", "phone": "931-473-2364", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Washington", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Sarah Lawson", "phone": "423-788-1450", "notes": "The Clerk and Master's Jonesborough office.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Wayne", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Jamie Ann White", "phone": "931-722-5517", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Weakley", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Regina VanCleave", "phone": "731-364-3454", "notes": "", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "White", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Gena Brock", "phone": "931-836-3787", "notes": "General Sessions; Clerk and Master performs the probate clerk duties.", "detail_page": "", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Williamson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Jakob L. Schwendimann", "phone": "615-790-5428", "notes": "Electronic filing through Tybera is required. Estates line is 615-591-8538.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/williamson-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" }, { "county": "Wilson", "office": "Clerk and Master", "office_code": "clerk_and_master", "officeholder": "Millie Sloan", "phone": "615-466-5311", "notes": "General Sessions Division III. Probate is Room 201 on its own line, separate from Chancery.", "detail_page": "https://estate.handofdavid.com/wilson-county/", "settled": "true", "last_verified": "2026-10-27" } ] }