TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Mar 6, 2017
Former Chancellor and state legislator Vernon Neal died on Friday. He was 85. Neal was a 1956 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law and enjoyed a long legal career in Cookeville. He was first elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1962 and was elected to state senate in 1966. He was elected as Chancellor of the 13th Judicial District in 1980, and served until 2005. The family will receive friends tonight at Cookeville First Baptist Church from 5 to 8 p.m. and again tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. Funeral services will follow tomorrow at 11 a.m. The family asks that memorial contributions be made to the Cookeville First Baptist Church’s Operation Christmas Child: Samaritans’ Purse.