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
- Division V – Judge Dianne Turner
- Division VI – Judge Michael F. Mondelli
- Division VII – Judge William E. (Bill) Higgins
- Division VIII – Judge Rachel L. Bell
- Division IX – Judge Lynda Jones
- Division X – Judge Sam Coleman (Presiding)
- Division XI – Judge John Aaron Holt