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Moore County Court Docket Searches

Moore County offers no online trial-docket portal through the county site, Tennessee court directories, clerk pages, or state case resources. A docket search here is really a routing task. First figure out which court holds the case. Gather the best identifiers you have, then call the right Moore County clerk and ask how inspection or copies work right now.

1. Identify Circuit, Chancery, General Sessions, Metropolitan General Sessions, or juvenile court from the notice, citation, pleading, or subject of the case.
2. Use the exact case number. If it is unknown, provide the filed caption, party role, court division, case type, and approximate year.
3. Call the Circuit Court Clerk at 931-759-7208 for Circuit cases or uncertain criminal routing. Call the Clerk & Master at 931-759-7028 for Chancery matters.
4. Ask whether the clerk offers a public terminal, printed docket, verified web link, or participating vendor access. None was confirmed in published sources.
5. Request the docket entry list separately from pleadings, orders, judgments, recordings, or certified copies.
6. Use Tennessee Public Case History only if the Moore County case generated a state appeal. Contact Archives for older court series.

If the online route fails, the counter still works. Call the clerk, mail a request after confirming the process, or use a records terminal the clerk approves. Moore County simply posts no fax copy service, online order form, or drop box for court records.

Two Moore Docket Addresses

Active and historical Moore County records have different starting points. The AOC courthouse directory places Circuit, Criminal, and Chancery functions at 196 Main Street, Lynchburg, Tennessee 37352. Moore County Archives is at 241 Main Street, Suite 105. Both are on Main Street, but they do not serve the same records.

The official Metro Moore landing page provides local court navigation and is shown below.

That landing page names the government source, but it offers no working public docket search. Treat it as a directory, not a lookup tool for Moore County court records.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Think of a docket as the clerk's timeline of a case. Each entry ties a case number and caption to filings, notices, hearings, orders, judgments, and whatever came later. It is not the whole file. A line may say an order was entered. That does not hand you the order's text. And a public list of events does not make every paper behind those events public.

Moore County publishes no official sample docket or code legend. When an abbreviation confuses you, ask the clerk or pull the linked order instead of guessing at its meaning.

Choose the Moore Docket Keeper

Tennessee court records are not all held by one generic county clerk. In Moore County, the Circuit Court Clerk keeps the Circuit dockets, including felony trial work. No separate Criminal Court is listed for the county. Unsure whether a matter belongs in General Sessions? That clerk is still the right first call. The Clerk & Master runs the Chancery side, covering equity, domestic relations, probate, and estates. The County Clerk, meanwhile, handles titles, vehicle registration, driver-license services, marriage licenses, and business licenses. Its online service portal is not a traffic or court docket database. Knowing that split up front saves a dead end.

Moore County Courts and Their Dockets

Which court holds your Moore County docket depends on jurisdiction. Moore County sits in the 17th Judicial District. It shares the district with Bedford, Lincoln, and Marshall Counties. District judges and local rules cross county lines. Even so, that shared district does not produce one shared public database.

The official Tennessee judicial system introduction lays out the court hierarchy.

That hierarchy is why a local trial case and its later appeal carry different case numbers. They also sit with different clerks and call for different searches.

Moore Metropolitan Docket Routing

Moore County runs a metropolitan government, and that shapes docket routing. The MTAS charter is explicit. The old Lynchburg Municipal Court was folded into Moore County General Sessions as an extra division. It is now the Metropolitan Court of General Sessions. It hears penal ordinances in the Metropolitan General Services District plus the former Sessions caseload. So a hunt for a Lynchburg municipal or ordinance docket starts with Metropolitan General Sessions. Do not guess at a city portal. No city citation search, municipal payment page, calendar, or stand-alone municipal clerk database exists. The charter changes who keeps the docket. It does not create online access.

Court Dates and Settings in Moore County

Moore County publishes no daily docket, judge calendar, or courtroom calendar. The state runs no local-trial setting search. Confirm your date from the newest notice or docket entry you hold. Then ask about the time, courtroom, judge, setting type. Did a continuance or reset replace the old notice? Chancery works on a standing schedule. Regular sessions land on the third Monday of March and September. That is holidays and judicial conferences permitting. Docket call happens at the opening. The Chancellor's calendar governs contested matters, and the Clerk & Master schedules the uncontested ones. None of that guarantees your case sits on any given Monday. For Circuit or unclear criminal matters, call 931-759-7208. Chancery questions go to 931-759-7028. For General Sessions, traffic, or juvenile routing, dial 931-455-5407. Ask for the current clerk line. The Moore County court schedule process covers resets and missed settings in full.

Moore Appellate Docket Search

For appeals, use the Tennessee Public Case History portal. It searches the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. The Court of Criminal Appeals is covered too. Four modes are offered: Case Number, Case Style, Party Name, and Business/Organization. There is no county dropdown, no Moore trial-court selector, and no hearing-date field.

Coverage has limits worth knowing. The portal reaches appeals with records filed after September 1, 2006. Its data runs through the end of the prior business day. Many document PDFs filed after August 26, 2013 are viewable. Earlier ones depend on migration. A result can name the originating trial court, the trial judge, and the trial-court number. Take that number back to the Moore County clerk for the full file.

Keep one caution in mind. A blank result here does not mean no Moore County trial case exists. The portal tracks appeals, not local trial dockets.

Docket Access Under Tennessee Law

Tennessee law opens court records to the public but allows lawful limits, and these authorities frame any Moore County docket request:

Some things stay off limits even when a Moore County docket is public. Juvenile files, adoptions, and sealed records can all remain restricted. Medical details, victim information, and certain domestic or identifying data can too. Just because a case is not online does not mean a judge sealed it. Sometimes no public portal exists at all. Ask the clerk about metadata. Ask as well about a redacted copy, or a written explanation of what access is allowed.

Three Moore Court Record Products

Know which product you need before you ask. A request for everything in the case can be too broad, and the office is not required to build a new record or answer a research question.

Docket or case history

The chronological event list showing filings, settings, rulings, judgment, and other clerk entries.

Case file document

A specific pleading, citation, return, motion, order, judgment, exhibit, transcript, or recording behind a docket entry.

Certified copy

A copy authenticated by the lawful custodian for official use; request certification separately from a plain printout.

Setting list

A dated calendar or daily docket for hearings, which is distinct from a complete case history.

Moore County does not post its own fee schedule for certified copies, docket sheets, searches, or electronic documents. The statewide TPRA figures of 15 cents per black-and-white page and 50 cents per color page are general public-record guidance. They are not a guaranteed Moore court fee. Ask the clerk for a local estimate before you order anything.

How the Clerk Keeps Docket Records

The docket is the clerk's chronology. The file behind it holds the actual papers. An electronic submission is not a public entry until the court accepts and enters it through its own process. Moore Circuit and Moore Chancery show up in an AOC annual report. The report lists them under have Applied for e-filing. That wording alone does not prove the system works here. Nor does it prove the public can use it online.

Name the court, the exact case number, the caption, the year, and the date range. Say plainly what you want: inspection, a plain copy, a certified copy, or a recording. Clerks can confirm a record exists and process your request, but they cannot give legal advice.

Moore Dockets in the 17th District

Moore County shares the 17th Judicial District with Bedford, Lincoln, and Marshall Counties. That shared structure has a practical effect. A judge or a local rule can cover more than one county. It does not mean a search in another county will pull up the Moore County docket. The official 17th Judicial District directory lists Moore County clerks and judges.

The directory works best when county court pages run thin. Still, a direct call to the clerk is the surest way to confirm a desk, a setting, or how to get access.

Active and Historic Moore Dockets

Moore County Archives keeps deep historical holdings. Chancery minutes, dockets, wills, probate deeds, and loose records run from 1872 through 1958. Circuit minutes, dockets, and miscellaneous records span 1872 through 1944. County Court material reaches 1872 through 1949, and trusts cover 1872 through 1930. These dates describe the listed series only. They do not promise complete survival or prove no earlier record exists.

The directory lists Tuesday and Friday hours from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday are closed, and no Monday hours appear. There is a copier but no internet or wireless access. So call 931-759-7068 before you drive over. Ask for the series and year. Then confirm the item still sits at the courthouse rather than elsewhere.

The AOC Moore courthouse listing gives the official details on the building and its offices.

Use the courthouse listing for current court work. For historical digging, the separate Archives inventory routes you by record series instead.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Moore County

Lynchburg is the one incorporated municipality in Moore County. Its metropolitan government identity does not create a separate all-purpose city docket system. The old Lynchburg Municipal Court was folded into Metropolitan General Sessions. Ordinance and municipal traffic matters now move through that county court structure.

Lynchburg offers no citation lookup, payment page, municipal calendar, or city docket search. Start at 196 Main Street for active records. For historical files, Moore County Archives sits at 241 Main Street, Suite 105.

Map and Directions to the Moore County Courthouse

The AOC courthouse directory places Circuit, Criminal, and Chancery Court records at 196 Main Street in Lynchburg. Circuit Court Clerk Linda Wolaver's office is the first contact for Circuit civil, Circuit criminal, and Sessions-appeal routing, while Clerk & Master Tammy Roberts keeps Chancery records in Suite 312 of the same courthouse. This is a different address from Moore County Archives, which holds pre-1958 records at 241 Main Street, Suite 105.

No published floor map, courtroom list, parking information, security procedure, or clerk-counter hours were located for the courthouse, so call the Circuit Clerk or Clerk & Master before a special trip.