Davidson County, Tennessee

Courts, legal aid, and legal guides in Davidson County.

Davidson County is home to Nashville — Tennessee's state capital and principal legal market for Middle Tennessee. Davidson County operates as the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (established 1963, the first modern U.S. city-county consolidation). Davidson County hosts the Tennessee Supreme Court (one of three sitting locations), the Tennessee Court of Appeals, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, the Tennessee General Assembly, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Vanderbilt Law School, and Belmont University College of Law. Davidson County operates the Tennessee Business Court Pilot Program. The economy combines state government, healthcare (HCA Healthcare HQ, Vanderbilt), music and entertainment (global music capital), finance, and technology.