TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 9, 2019

Gallatin lawyer James Barrett Hawkins died Friday following a battle with lymphoma. He was 63. Hawkins was a high school teacher in Danville, Kentucky, before earning a master's degree in educational policy studies from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from Duke University. He clerked for the Tennessee Supreme Court, worked with Harsh, Kelly & Smith and BellSouth Corporation, served as managing attorney of the Legal Aid Society’s Gallatin office, and, in 2009, opened a general practice law office in Gallatin. A funeral service will be held Wednesday at noon at the First United Methodist Church, 149 W. Main St., Gallatin 37066. Visitation will be held Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Family Heritage Funeral Home, 100 Albert Gallatin Ave., Gallatin 37066, and again on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon at the church. Memorial donations may be made to the church or a charitable organization of the donor’s choice.