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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 6, 2024

The legacy of former Court of Appeals Judge Richard H. Dinkins will live on through the Judge Dinkins Educational Center (JDEC), Executive Director Tim Forbes writes in the Tennessean. The center, which will open ithis fall, is designed to be a diversionary trade school for youth in the juvenile courts. It will offer pre-construction and pre-apprenticeship programs in the trades of carpentry, electrical, plumbing and welding. After completing the program, students will work toward a journeyman’s license. “Naming [the center] for Judge Dinkins, a man who spent his professional life continually looking to give others an opportunity for growth and redemption, is appropriate and an honor,” Forbes writes. Dinkins died in October 2023.