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TACIR staff present models for judicial redistricting and urge updated caseload studies before policy moves
Summary
Staff presented background and a statistical analysis of three judicial redistricting proposals, finding potential administrative savings but limited evidence to support statewide boundary changes without updated weighted caseload studies; staff deferred recommending redistricting until more current data are available.
Leah Eldridge and research manager Bob Morio briefed the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations on judicial redistricting background and scenario analysis.
Eldridge summarized prior studies and statutory direction, noting Tennessee currently has 32 judicial districts with variation in county composition and court types. She described prior recommendations dating to the 1990s and the 2019 advisory task force that largely concluded there was no statewide need to redraw districts except for a localized realignment involving Hickman, Lewis and Perry counties. Eldridge said 2022 legislation requires an advisory task force to publish a…
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