Judge's Judicial Overview
The Metropolitan General Sessions Court of Nashville-Davidson County is a high volume limited jurisdiction Court that hears civil, misdemeanor, felony, traffic, environmental, and metropolitan ordinance violations. This Court is served by 11 judges that are elected to an eight year term. There are also five law-trained judicial commissioners that handle all the criminal probable cause hearings and 1 referee that handles the environmental cases and other non-traffic metro ordinance violations.