Transfer Your Electrician License to Tennessee: Reciprocity & Endorsement (2026)

The thing to settle about Tennessee before you plan anything: there is no state journeyman or master electrician license here to transfer. Individual electricians are licensed below the state level, by a city or county, where they are licensed at all, so "reciprocity" is the wrong question — the right one is which authority governs electrical work at your jobsite and what it requires. If Tennessee licenses anything electrical statewide, it is the contractor business, a separate credential; the notes below say what applies here.

Tennessee has NO statewide journeyman or master electrician license — those are issued and examined by the larger cities/counties that run their own code offices. The state credentials are the Limited Licensed Electrician (LLE, work up to $25,000) and the Electrical Contractor (CE) license (any project of $25,000+), both under the Board for Licensing Contractors. The Board's trade-exam-waiver reciprocity applies to CONTRACTOR classifications, names AL, LA, MS, NC, OH, SC, WV plus NASCLA for the Electrical (CE) scope (Arkansas is Residential/Commercial only, NOT electrical), and still requires the TN Business & Law exam — and it explicitly cannot be used for the LLE. Not a NERA member. Because no state journeyman/master credential exists and the individual LLE has no reciprocity, endorsement_available is false and no state-level journeyman reciprocity exists.