The Rhode Island Superior Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction in Rhode Island.
The Superior Court has original jurisdiction in all felony proceedings, civil matters with an amount in controversy in excess of $10,000, and all matters of equity.
The chief administrative judge establishes calendars, assigns judges, appoints the Superior Court administrator, jury commissioner, and other staff, and makes rules for court business.
There are 21 Associate Justices and five Magistrates of the Superior Court.
Rhode Island's five counties each have separate jurisdictions of Superior Court: One in Kent County (at the Noel Judicial Complex in Warwick), one in Washington County (at the McGrath Judicial Complex at Wakefield), one in Newport County (at the Murray Judicial Complex in Newport), and a combined jurisdiction for Providence and Bristol counties (at the Licht Judicial Complex, formerly known as the Providence County Courthouse, in the state capital of Providence (which the Superior Court shares with the Supreme Court and Rhode Island Law Library).