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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 8, 2017
Longtime Nashville attorney Frank J. Scanlon died on April 22. He was 70. Scanlon moved to Nashville in 1975, and served for 12 years in the Attorney General’s Office, where he started the Environmental Enforcement Division. He represented Tennessee twice in the U.S. Supreme Court. He participated in the medical licensing case of Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, the attending physician to Elvis Presley, and was interviewed for several books about Presley. The family will receive family and friends on May 13 in the West Wing of the parish center of Christ The King Catholic Church at 10 a.m., eulogy at 11 a.m. and the funeral mass to follow at 11:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Nashville Humane Association, the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee or the YMCA of Middle of Tennessee.