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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 24, 2021

Jackson lawyer Jay Ernest DeGroot died May 18. He was 60. Originally from Illinois, he graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology-Kent College of Law in 1986. He first went to work as an assistant to regional counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation/Urban Mass Transportation Administration. In 1987 he joined the law firm of Lawrence W. Leck & Associates in Chicago. In 1992, he relocated to Tennessee and joined the Law Offices of Jeffery A. Garrety, where he handled workers’ compensation and personal injury cases. The family celebrated his life at services yesterday at Lambuth Memorial United Methodist Church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Alzheimer's Association.