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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 2, 2021

Jackson lawyer Harold Franklin Johnson died May 25. He was 92. A football and basketball player, Johnson attended the University of Tennessee on an athletic scholarship. He joined the football coaching staff in the fall of 1949, and participated as a player-coach on both the 1949 and 1950 championship teams. He later became a Southeastern Conference basketball and football official. Johnson earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1952 and began practicing with the law firm of Murray, Murray & Johnson. He later served as Jackson city attorney for 19 years. Three of his daughters went on to practice law: Archie Ann Taylor recently retired as a supervisory counsel with the FDIC in Washington, D.C.; Leigh Milam is clerk and master of the Henderson County Chancery Court; and Carol Pearson is deputy general counsel with TruGreen in Memphis.