TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 5, 2017

Former state representative and lawyer Franklin Delano Cochran has died. He was 80. Cochran was originally from Tiptonville and earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. He served as a judge, a city and county attorney, a state representative from 1962 to 1970 and as the Public Service Commissioner for the western half of Tennessee from 1976 to 1994. The family will receive friends in Nashville on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Forest Hills Baptist Church, 2101 Old Hickory Blvd. Visitation prior to the funeral will be held on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Dyersburg Funeral Home Tiptonville location, with the funeral at 2 p.m.