Tennessee Code Title 8. Public Officers and Employees § 8-23-108

(a) The chief justice and each associate judge of the supreme court are 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 chief justice and the administrative director of the courts, payable monthly. Such compensation shall be paid out of funds appropriated by the general assembly for the supreme court.

(b) The chief justice and each associate judge of the supreme court are authorized to employ, at the expense of the state, a research assistant, whose compensation shall be fixed by the supreme court and who shall serve at the pleasure of the judge employing such assistant.

(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.