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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

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Sharon Gail Lee

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Sharon Gail Lee is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: Since 2008 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 172 published opinions for the court (1964–2022), plus 7 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Carrington H. (732 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. 34 of these were attributed to Lee 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
2016	In Re Carrington H.· Concurrence†	483 S.W.3d 507	732
2011	Webb v. Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity, Inc.	346 S.W.3d 422	456
2011	State of Tennessee v. Christopher Lee Davis	354 S.W.3d 718	450
2010	Lane v. State	316 S.W.3d 555	353
2013	Dick Broadcasting Company, Inc. of Tennessee v. Oak Ridge FM, Inc.	395 S.W.3d 653	301
2012	Betty Saint Rogers v. Louisville Land Company	367 S.W.3d 196	246
2011	Leonard Edward Smith v. State of Tennessee	357 S.W.3d 322	226
2012	Curtis Myers v. Amisub (SFH), Inc., d/b/a St. Francis Hospital	382 S.W.3d 300	205
2010	Ward v. State	315 S.W.3d 461	195
2013	State of Tennessee v. Kevin Anthony Dickson, Jr.	413 S.W.3d 735	177
2015	State of Tennessee v. Marlo Davis· Concurrence†	466 S.W.3d 49	175
2010	Terrance Lavar Davis v. State of Tennessee· Concurrence†	313 S.W.3d 751	150
2014	Clarence Nesbit v. State of Tennessee	452 S.W.3d 779	144
2010	State v. Lewter	313 S.W.3d 745	139
2019	TWB Architects, Inc. v. The Braxton, LLC	578 S.W.3d 879	135

Showing the 15 most-cited of 194 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 is Sharon Gail Lee on?: Sharon Gail Lee is 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).