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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 19, 2016

Mary Jo Hoover, retired associate dean of student affairs at the University of Tennessee College of Law, died Sept. 11. Hoover served the school as assistant dean and instructor of law from 1976 to 1980, and as associate dean for student affairs from 1980 until she retired in 1997. She twice received Carden Awards for Outstanding Service to the Institution and received a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Advising. After Hoover retired, she continued to serve as a pro bono attorney for the Legal Aid Society and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Prior to her retirement, the Mary Jo Hoover Student Organization Fund was established in her honor. Donations to that fund may be sent to the College of Law’s Development Office, 1505 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37996. A memorial service will be held in the law school’s Howard H. Baker Rotunda on Sept. 30 at 3:30 p.m. Knoxnews has more on her life.