Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Union County, Tennessee, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Union County comes from a judge of the Union County Circuit and Chancery Courts or the General Sessions Court, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Union County public records, Union County arrest records, Union County inmate search, Union County criminal records, Union County court records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Union County
In Tennessee an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Union County that means the Union County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which hear felonies in the Circuit or Criminal Court, civil cases in either court, and divorces in either; the General Sessions Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings, issues its own warrants on the cases before it. A city with a municipal court of its own issues warrants on the tickets and ordinance cases it tries.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at unioncountytnclerkandmaster.com (page title: Union County Tennessee Clerk & Master | "It Must be Something in the Water"), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
Tennessee has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
Who Serves Warrants in Union County
The Union County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Maynardville and Plainview serve warrants in Union County.
The agency that serves a warrant from Union County is whichever one finds the person; a Tennessee warrant is valid across Tennessee.
Together, the three agencies in Union County with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 826 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Union County arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Union County Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Union County Sheriff's Office, held about 74 people on an average day in 2024 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a jail page SearchSystems verified at unioncountytn.gov/sheriffs-department-and-jail, phone 865-992-2349. The Union County inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Union County on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Union County
The place to check for a warrant from Union County is the District Attorney General, which can say whether charges were filed; a warrant on a complaint follows the filing.
The one Union County page SearchSystems verified, the prosecutor's, is not a list of open warrants.
Clearing a Warrant from Union County
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Union County that means appearing before the Union County Circuit and Chancery Courts or the General Sessions Court, with the case put back on the calendar through the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master.
A missed date in a case before the General Sessions Court is handled by that court, not by the Union County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
A lawyer can often arrange the appearance in advance. The District Attorney General's page SearchSystems verified is at tennesseeda.gov/district-8.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Union County?
Not from the Union County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. The court that issued it keeps the record; ask the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master.
Who serves warrants in Union County?
The Union County Sheriff's Office, and the agency that reports for the city where the person is found; a Tennessee warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Union County held?
At the county jail, run by the Union County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Union County cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master.
Is this the official Union County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.