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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Apr 5, 2024

Cleveland attorney J. Allen Murphy Jr. died on March 8. He graduated from Emory University in 1991, where he earned degrees in English and philosophy and served as a governor's intern with the Georgia Indigent Defense Council. After college, Murphy enlisted and served honorably in the U.S. Army. He later went on to obtain a teaching fellowship and pursue a master's degree in philosophy and religion at the University of Mississippi. While at Ole Miss, he was accepted to the University of Mississippi School of Law. After obtaining his law degree, he opened a solo practice in Cleveland. Services were held March 23. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations made in his memory to The McCallie School, The Friends of the Greenway Fund or the charity of the donor's choice.