Montgomery County, TN

County Offices are closed on January 31 due to anticipated weather conditions.

Clerk and Master

Clerk and Master

Contact Info.

Clerk and Master
2 Millennium Plaza
Suite 101
Clarksville, TN 37040

Phone: 931-648-5703
Email: [email protected]

Welcome to Chancery Court, 19th Judicial District

Heather L. Moore, Clerk and Master

The Clerk and Master’s office of Montgomery County, Tennessee serves the Chancellor, Attorneys and Montgomery County citizens by providing high quality, courteous, and responsive court services. Constantly evolving laws, higher court decisions, rules and regulations will continue to cause significant and unanticipated increases in workload associated with initiating and trying cases.

The Chancery Court for the 19th Judicial District of the State of Tennessee handles a wide variety of cases servicing Montgomery and Robertson Counties. Cases decided in this court include:

Contract/Debt
Specific Performance
Real Estate Matters
Worker's Compensation
Probate
Conservatorship
Guardianship
Trusts
Paternity
Legitimation
Adoption
Surrender
Divorce
Order of Protection (within a divorce action)
Contempt
Child Support (within a chancery case)
Partition Suits
Minor Settlements
Foreign Judgements
Name Change

Our office is open 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Chancellor Ben Dean, Presiding

-Ben graduated from the University of Memphis School of Law in 2005. He was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in the fall of 2005 and practiced with the Batson Nolan firm in Clarksville and Springfield as an associate attorney in the firm’s litigation section until 2011. From 2011 until the 2022 election cycle, Ben operated the Dean Law Firm in Springfield TN, serving primarily Robertson County, and also practiced regularly in Davidson, Sumner, Cheatham, and Montgomery Counties. Prior to being elected Chancellor of the 19th Judicial District, Ben maintained a general practice of law in the areas of probate, family law, criminal law, social security disability and civil litigation (focusing primarily on plaintiff’s personal injury and federal civil rights cases.) In his 18 years practicing law, Ben has been in the Tennessee State Trial Courts in over 20 different counties. He is admitted to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and had an active federal practice prior to his election as Chancellor of the 19th Judicial District. Ben lives in Springfield with his wife, Diana, who works as a manager for GE Healthcare in the field of Nuclear Medicine Technology (Radiology).