How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 1994 / Active

Charles D. Susano Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Charles D. Susano Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Susano authored 1,082 published opinions for the court (1994–2020), plus 6 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Massengale v. Massengale (159 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 68 of these were attributed to Susano by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1995	Massengale v. Massengale	915 S.W.2d 818	159
1996	Jahn v. Jahn	932 S.W.2d 939	151
1996	Edmundson v. Pratt	945 S.W.2d 754	137
1996	State Department of Human Services v. Defriece	937 S.W.2d 954	132
2007	In re T.C.D.†	261 S.W.3d 734	125
2007	Massey-Holt v. Holt	255 S.W.3d 603	113
1999	Vantage Technology, LLC v. Cross	17 S.W.3d 637	96
1997	Brumit v. Brumit	948 S.W.2d 739	85
1994	Gredig v. Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Co.	891 S.W.2d 909	78
2007	Burden v. Burden	250 S.W.3d 899	77
1995	D v. K†	917 S.W.2d 682	77
2002	Arfken & Associates, P.A. v. Simpson Bridge Co.	85 S.W.3d 789	76
1996	Brock v. Brock	941 S.W.2d 896	74
2003	Killingsworth v. Ted Russell Ford, Inc.	104 S.W.3d 530	69
1996	Word v. Word†	937 S.W.2d 931	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,102 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Charles D. Susano Jr. on?: Charles D. Susano Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

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32 years on the Court of Appeals of Tennessee. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).