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Posted by: Kate Prince on Apr 13, 2021

Memphis attorney Warner Hodges died April 10 at his home in Germantown. He was 99. Hodges attended Vanderbilt University Law School on the GI bill, earning his law degree in 1949. After several years of private practice, he was appointed as an assistant U.S. District Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and was later appointed as the U.S. District Attorney by President Eisenhower. He returned to private practice in 1961, becoming a prominent defense attorney in Memphis. Visitation will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. CDT at the Memphis Funeral Home, 5599 Poplar Ave., followed by a service at 2 p.m.