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 5 law-trained judicial magistrates that handle the probable cause hearings in the issuance of a criminal warrant and 1 referee that handles the environmental cases and other non-traffic metro ordinance violations.
- Division I – Judge Gale B. Robinson
- Division II – Judge Melissa Blackburn
- Division III – Judge Ana L. Escobar
- Division IV – Judge Allegra Walker (Presiding)
- Division V – Judge Robin K. Hayes
- Division VI – Judge Jim Todd
- Division VII – Judge Marcus Floyd
- Division VIII – Judge Rachel L. Bell
- Division IX – Judge Lynda Jones
- Division X – Judge Sam Coleman
- Division XI – Judge John Aaron Holt