A celebration of life is set for 9 a.m. Aug. 12 at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro for Circuit Court Judge Keith Siskin, who died July 23. Services were also held in his family's hometown of Savannah, Georgia, earlier this week. The Murfreesboro Post has more and the Administrative Office of the Courts offers reflections on Siskin's life and career from Justice Jeff Bivins and other judges.

Funeral services for Jackson attorney Randi Bulliner Rich will be 4 p.m. Thursday at Shackelford Funeral Directors – Johnson Chapel in Henderson. Visitation will begin at 11.m. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. A member of the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Inns of Courts, Rich was a University of Tennessee graduate who earned her law degree from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. She was a partner in the law firm of Holmes, Rich and Sigler.

Longtime University of Tennessee General Counsel Beauchamp “Beach” E. Brogan died earlier this month in Knoxville, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. He was 87. A UT graduate, Brogan earned his law degree from the University of Kentucky, and served as head litigator for the Tennessee Valley Authority before joining the university in 1975. He retired in 1999. An avid Vols sports fan, Brogan was also part of a "legendary student prank" in which he "stole the Smokey dog mascot," according to the university. “When he was being considered for the job as UT general counsel and board secretary, he felt he had to tell the trustees about his involvement in the taking of Smokey,” his son, Jim Brogan, said, “and Col. Tom Elam, then on the board, said, ‘If he’s that tough, we ought to hire him.’ ”

University of Tennessee College of Law graduate Barbara Tallent Ward, 79, died Thursday following a traffic accident earlier this month in West Knox County. Barbara Ward and her husband John Ward, the legendary “Voice of the Vols,” gave generously to the university, making in 1994 what was then the largest gift in history to the school’s athletic department, estimated at more than $2 million, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.