TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Feb 19, 2021

Longtime Nashville attorney Robert “Bobby” Jackson Jr. died Monday after a brief hospitalization. He was 79. Jackson graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1965 as one of the first to complete an undergraduate and law degree in six years. He began his career with his father, Eugene D. Jackson Jr., in the Nashville firm of Jackson, Tanner and Reynolds. He later joined his son, Robert Todd Jackson, to form Jackson and Associates. Considered by some as the dean of the domestic bar in Nashville, Jackson mediated more than 2,000 divorce cases during his more than 50-year career. His family includes seven consecutive generations of lawyers. Memorials may be made to Centennial Heart, H.A.R.T. Inc. or Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Cardiac Surgery.