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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 16, 2021

Chattanooga attorney Richard W. Buhrman, 80, died Aug. 9 after a brief illness. He was practicing at the Buhrman Law Firm with his son John at the time of his death. Buhrman earned a bachelor of law degree from Duke University School of Law and an LLM in taxation from George Washington University. Following graduate school, he returned to Chattanooga to begin a 50-year legal career. He received the Ralph H. Kelley Humanitarian Award from the Chattanooga Bar Association in 2010 and served as a former vice president of the Federal Bar Association’s Chattanooga Chapter. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the family decided to hold a private service. Memorial donations may be made to the Margaret Whiteside Buhrman Scholarship at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Buhrman established the scholarship in 1978 to honor his mother’s 46 years of service to the university.