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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Oct 20, 2023

Ricky Wilkins, Memphis attorney and longtime member of the Memphis Housing Authority, died Oct. 19 at age 58 of brain cancer. A Memphis native, Wilkins attended Howard University and Vanderbilt University Law School. He was a leader in the Memphis Bar Association and the Ben F. Jones Chapter of the National Bar Association, and president of the TBA Young Lawyers Division from 1999-2000. He was later named a TBA YLD Fellow. The Commercial Appeal has this remembrance. Funeral arrangements are pending.