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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1996 / Served to 2014

Janice Marie Holder

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Janice Marie Holder was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 1996–2014 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Holder authored 366 published opinions for the court (1997–2014), plus 18 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Valentine (1,212 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. 88 of these were attributed to Holder 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
2002	In Re Valentine	79 S.W.3d 539	1,212
2001	Eldridge v. Eldridge	42 S.W.3d 82	1,094
2001	Bogan v. Bogan· Dissent†	60 S.W.3d 721	819
2000	Staples v. CBL & Associates, Inc.· Concurrence†	15 S.W.3d 83	816
2007	Summers v. State	212 S.W.3d 251	791
2007	State v. Vasques· Concurrence†	221 S.W.3d 514	744
1998	State v. Hall· Concurrence†	976 S.W.2d 121	732
2008	Tennie Martin, et.al. v. Southern Railway Company, et.al.	271 S.W.3d 76	715
2002	Jones v. Garrett	92 S.W.3d 835	708
2009	Dellinger v. State	279 S.W.3d 282	702
2000	State v. Binette· Dissent†	33 S.W.3d 215	593
2001	House v. State	44 S.W.3d 508	572
2008	Hannan v. Alltel Publishing Co.†	270 S.W.3d 1	570
1998	McCarley v. West Quality Food Service	960 S.W.2d 585	526
2009	In re M.L.P.†	281 S.W.3d 387	471

Showing the 15 most-cited of 421 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 Supreme Court of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Janice Marie Holder on?: Janice Marie Holder was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

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