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 2013 / Active

Thomas R. Frierson II

Judge, Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Thomas R. Frierson II is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Frierson authored 518 published opinions for the court (2009–2026), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: In Re: Braxton M. (103 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. 2 of these were attributed to Frierson 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
2017	In Re: Braxton M.	531 S.W.3d 708	103
2016	In re Joseph F.	492 S.W.3d 690	33
2017	Ferryl Theresita McClain v. Richard Perry McClain	539 S.W.3d 170	29
2018	Courtney P. Brunetz v. Neil A. Brunetz	573 S.W.3d 173	28
2017	Nelson E. Bowers, II v. Estate of Katherine N. Mounger	542 S.W.3d 470	25
2018	Lorna Mae Gibson v. Charles William Bikas	556 S.W.3d 796	24
2016	Beacon4, LLC v. I & L Investments, LLC†	514 S.W.3d 153	23
2018	Kathryn A. Duke v. Harold W. Duke, III	563 S.W.3d 885	19
2017	Alexander Stratienko v. Lisa Stratienko	529 S.W.3d 389	19
2017	Tommy Lynn Lawson v. Knoxville Dermatology Group, P.C.	544 S.W.3d 704	16
2017	STATE of Tennessee EX REL. Jamie Joy WILLIAMS v. Deadrick Donnell WOODS, Sr.	530 S.W.3d 129	15
2018	In Re: The Conservatorship Of Mary Ruth Davis Hudson	578 S.W.3d 896	10
2017	Carl C. Smith, II v. Anderson County Sheriff Paul White	538 S.W.3d 1	9
2018	Kathryn Nicole Brown v. Tyler Matthew Brown	577 S.W.3d 206	8
2017	Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole	547 S.W.3d 207	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 519 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 Thomas R. Frierson II on?: Thomas R. Frierson II is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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13 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).