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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 27, 2016

Retired Tazewell lawyer and TBA senior counselor James D. Estep Jr. died Monday (July 25) at the age of 91. Estep, a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law, was born in Cumberland Gap and served as its mayor in 1954. He also served as Claiborne County judge from 1956 to 1966. He later founded Estep & Estep Attorneys-At-Law in Tazewell and practiced law there for 64 years. Visitation will be Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Claiborne-Overholt Funeral Home in New Tazewell. Funeral services will follow. Burial will be Friday at 11 a.m. at the Harrogate (Meador) Cemetery in Harrogate. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the New Tazewell United Methodist Church. Knoxnews has more on his life.