TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Sep 7, 2021

Judy Wood Franks, longtime Signal Mountain resident and attorney, died on Aug. 26 in Nyack, New York. She was 77. Franks earned her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1981 and was editor in chief of the school’s Law Review. Franks clerked for Judge John Beyers in the Court of Criminal Appeals and later for Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Frank Drowota. She was also staff attorney for the Supreme Court. She is preceded in death by her husband, former Chancellor and Chief Judge of the Tennessee Court of Appeals Herschel Franks. A memorial service will be set at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family ask that donations be made to the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas or St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church of Signal Mountain.

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