TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 11, 2016

Judge Robert E. Cooper, who served a long tenure on the Tennessee Supreme Court, died Sunday at his home on Signal Mountain. He was 95. A native of Chattanooga, Cooper studied at the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University. He served as a Circuit Court judge in Hamilton County from 1953-1960 and on the Tennessee Court of Appeals from 1960-1974. Cooper was named to the Supreme Court in 1974 and served there until he retired in 1990. His son, Robert E. Cooper Jr., served as Tennessee attorney general from 2006 to 2014. Funeral details are pending. Chattanoogan.com has more on his life.