(a) Each judge of the court of appeals is authorized to employ at the expense of the state a clerk or stenographer who shall each receive compensation in the amount to be fixed by the presiding judge of each grand division of the court of appeals and the administrative director of the courts, payable monthly. Such compensation shall be paid out of funds appropriated by the general assembly for the court of appeals.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-23-109

  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • Student: means any person enrolled in a course of study in a school or in a post-secondary educational institution who as a condition of such enrollment is employed in a full-time position. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
(b) The chief justice may, upon application to the chief justice showing the necessity therefor by any judge of the court of criminal appeals, approve the employment of a research assistant for such judge, and upon approval, such judge is authorized to employ, at the expense of the state, a research assistant to assist the judge in the discharge of the judge’s duties, whose compensation shall be the same as authorized by law for the research assistant of each justice of the supreme court. The research assistant shall be a graduate of or student at an accredited law school.
(c) The secretaries when required to be absent from their official residences attending court, in different sections of the state with the members of the courts they represent, shall be reimbursed for their travel and hotel expenses in the same manner as the judges whom they are serving are reimbursed for such expense.
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