Tenn. Code § 18-1-101 : CLERKS OF COURTS — GENERAL PROVISIONS — QUALIFICATIONS AND CONDUCT OF OFFICE —1-101 - Selection and general functions

Each of the courts has a clerk, elected or appointed for a term of years, whose duty it is to attend the court and perform all the clerical functions of the court.

T.C.A. § 18-1-101

Code 1858, § 320 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 2); Shan., § 396; Code 1932, § 646; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-101.