The 26th JD Bar/MBF Memorials Committee coordinates memorial services in open court for deceased members of the Bar. During each service, a memorial resolution is read by a family member, friend or colleague.
Memorial Ceremonies currently scheduled
You may download any of the resolutions the Bar has on file below (indicates year of passing):
- Thaddeus A. Adams (1958)
- J. Wilson Alexander Jr. (1990)
- Julia Alexander (1957)
- Leila Minerva Alexander (1991)
- Uhlman S. Alexander (1969)
- Wayne C. Alexander (1989)
- John T. Allred (2009)
Eugene Moore Anderson, Jr. (2019) - Howard Bell Arbuckle Jr. (1988)
Thomas J. Ashcraft (2018) - William H. Ashendorf (2012)
- Allen A. Bailey (2006)
- Brock Barkley (1975)
Joseph L. Barrier (2014) - A. Marshall Basinger II (2010)
- P.B. Beachum (1997)
- Charles Vincent Bell (1999)
Paul B. Bell (2017) - Mark R. Bernstein (2015)
Harry Randall Bivens (2014) - Whiteford S. Blakeney (1991)
- Francis Joseph Blanchfield (2013)
Louis Adams Bledsoe, Jr. (2022) - Margaret Marie Bledsoe (1996)
- William Haywood Bobbitt (1992)
- Lyn Bond, Jr. (2012)
- Everett J. Bowman (2016)
- Basil M. Boyd (1970)
- Allen W. Boyer (2012)
- Bryson Irvin Boyle (2008)
Martin L. Brackett, Jr. (2022) - Raymond West Bradley Jr. (2000)
- Robert W. Bradshaw Jr. (2012)
- Chase Brenizer (1956)
- Barry Stephen Brown (1987)
- Alfred Neal Brumley (2007)
- K. Shepherd Buckhalt Jr. (1992)
- Charles Ware Bundy (1994)
- Amon M. Butler (1994)
Donald H. Caldwell, Jr. (2019) - James Jackson Caldwell (1994)
Boyd Cleveland Campbell, Jr. (2020) - Carlyle Campbell Jr. (2003)
- Hon. Hugh Brown Campbell (1989)
- Hon. Hugh B. Campbell Jr. (2015)
- James Vincent Campbell II (1986)
- Thomas R. Cannon (2015)
- Edwin Thomas Cansler (1943)
- Julian E. Carnes Jr. (1992)
- Lewis Benjamin Carpenter (1973)
- Guy Thomas Carswell (1966)
- James Louis Carter (1970)
Nelson M. Casstevens, Jr. (2019) - Charles Basil Caudle (1972)
- Lloyd Cameron Caudle (2003)
- Mahlon Chandler (1974)
- Julius LeVonne Chambers (2013)
- Robert G. Chambers (2011)
- Gary D. Chamblee (2011)
- Waldo Clayton Cheek (1957)
Hon. Francis O. Clarkson (1985) - Justice Heriot Clarkson (1942)
- Overton Wilson Clayton Jr. (1985)
- Ralph C. Clontz Jr. (2001)
- H. Irwin Coffield III (1987)
Gerry C. Coggin, II (2022) - Richard Armor Cohan (2005)
Charles "Bud" Fortunato Coira, Jr. (2019) - Claire Pierce Cole (2007)
- Theodore Charles Conrad (1995)
- Neil C. Cooksey (2012)
- Harvey L. Cosper Jr. (2015)
- Stephen M. S. Courtland (1993)
- William T. Covington Jr. (2001)
- David Jenkins Craig Jr. (1985)
- James Brown Craighill (2006)
- James P. Crews (1999)
- G. Bryan Crocker Jr. (2015)
- Andy T. Crumbley (1966)
Martha Hawkins Curran (2020)
Thomas E. Cummings (2018) - Joseph Allen D'Amico (2002)
- Don Burton Davis (1996)
- William Cleveland Davis (1957)
- Robert Dewitt Dearborn (1993)
Edd Wolfe DeArmon (2015) - Ernest Stanhope Delaney Jr. (2007)
Ernest S. DeLaney III (2017)
Lope Max Diaz II (2017) - Clyde Adams Duckworth (1965)
Garth K. Dunklin (2021) - Paul Blaine Eaton (1960)
Harold M. Edwards (2016) - Charles B. Elderkin (2010)
Billie R. Ellerbe (2020) - Paul R. Ervin (1970)
- Durant Williams Escott (1987)
Kenneth Franklin Essex (2022) - Joseph J. Estwanik IV (2009)
- Hon. Charles H. Evans (1978)
- Harry Edward Faggart Jr. (1995)
- Ray S. Farris, Sr. (1957)
Herbert A. Ferrari, M.D., J.D. (2010) - George Elmo Fields (1975)
- George L. Fitzgerald (2011)
- James Carlton Fleming (2014)
- Patrick V. Ford (2010)
- Elbert E. Foster (1988)
- Claude Quarterman Freeman Jr. (2006)
- John Samuel Freeman (2018)
Hon. Shirley L. Fulton (2023)
Gaston H. Gage, Sr. (2019)
Katherine "Kitty" D. Garner (2021)
Willard I. Gatling (1987) - Bruce O. Gebhardt (1974)
Phillip E. Gerdes (2009) - Peter H. Gerns (1996)
- Stanley A. Gertzman (1991)
- Morgan Bennett Gilreath (1970)
- William Coyle Ginter (1955)
John Gardner Golding (2022) - Arthur Goodman Jr. (2003)
- Michael Kenneth Gordon (1990)
- Charles Hundley Gover (1957)
- Claude Judson Gray (1955)
Hon. Marvin K. Gray (2017) - John Lazarus Green Jr. (1989)
- Joseph W. Grier Jr. (2010)
- Kenneth A. Griffin (2002)
- Harry J. Grim (2011)
- William Taylor Grist (2009)
- Robert C. Gunst Sr. (2014)
Paul B. Guthery, Jr. (2015) - Thomas C. Guthrie, Sr.
Jeffrey B. Hargett (2018) - Henry Lee Harkey (1989)
- McKinley Harrill (1967)
- Hon. Resa L. Harris (2011)
- Richard Foster Harris III (1999)
- Fred Henderson Hasty (1986)
Alton Myles Haynes, Jr. (2014) - Joseph Allie Hayes III (2011)
J. Marshall Haywood (2011) - Phillip Ross Hedrick (1999)
- Fred Bryan Helms (1998)
Harold Parks Helms (2023) - Charles Jenkins Henderson (1999)
- David Ezekiel Henderson (1968)
- David H. Henderson (2009)
- Roger Belton Hendrix (1996)
- W. Pinkney Herbert Jr. (1976)
- Harry Clabaugh Hewson (1999)
- Marcus Hickman (2006)
- Eugene C. Hicks III (2010)
John Darwin Hicks (2011) - Elmer Albert Hilker (1970)
- Robert Lee Hines (1970)
- Robin L. Hinson (2008)
- Jonathan L. Hipps (2019)
Robert "Bob" D. Hoagland (2018)
Robert Carl Hord, Jr. (2020) - Robert A. Hovis (1987)
- Carl W. Howard (1992)
Hon. Philip Fullerton Howerton, Jr. (2021)
John Nelson Hunter (1984)
William Frederick "Rick" Hulse (2021) - John James Jr. (1975)
- Robert Paul Jamison (1975)
- Hon. Clifton Earl Johnson (2009)
- James Edwin Johnson Jr. (2014)
- John William Johnston (2007)
Eric A. Jonas, Sr. (2021) - Hunter McGuire Jones (1996)
- Julia Virginia Jones (1999)
- Hon. William G. Jones (2015)
Alex Rustin Josephs (2009) - Alfred Blythe Justice (1943)
- James Foy Justice (1998)
Max E. Justice (2020) - Paul H. Kaplan (1996)
William "Bill" Kellam (2018) - Frank Hunter Kennedy (1975)
- Joseph Bruce Kennedy (2002)
Robert W. King Jr. (2019) - Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick (1946)
- James W. Kiser (2015)
- Jack M. Knight (1986)
- Charles Eugene Knox (2007)
Cheslie C. Kryst (2022) - Robert L. Kurtz (1971)
- Thomas G. Lane Jr. (2007)
- Hon. James E. Lanning (2015)
- Robert Lassiter Jr. (1995)
- Lawrence Glen Ledford (1971)
- Randall W. Lee (2010)
Matthew Jeffrey Lester (2019) - Solomon Levine (2011)
- Oliver Milton Litaker (1958)
Hugh Lewis Lobdell (1982) - Alvin Aaron London (1998)
- Merl Maltsy Long (1944)
- Peter Lowry Long (1967)
- Edgar Love III (2009)
- James R. Lovett (2011)
Richard Alexander Lucey (2016)
Charles Edward Lyons, II (2016) - James Andy Martin (1986)
James Edwin Martin Jr. (2018)
Darrell Lane Matthews (2011) - Cornelius Eugene McCartha (1987)
Frank A. McCleneghan (1970) - David Moffatt McConnell (1999)
- Hon. H. Brent McKnight (2004)
Howard Randolph "Randy" McLean (2021) - Larry Thomas McLean, Jr. (2017)
- Hon. James Bryan McMillan (1995)
- John Albert McRae (1962)
Frederick Chapin Meekins (2019)
Robert L. Mendenhall (2022)
Connie J. Miller (2012) - George J. Miller (2017)
John Clark Miller (1994) - Nick J. Miller (2010)
- F. Thomas Miller Jr. (1985)
Samuel Martin Millette (2018) - Michael L. Minsker (2005)
- James Osborne Moore (1988)
John August "Jack" Mraz (2018) - Thomas McGrath Mullen (1990)
- William Frederick Mulliss (1987)
- Jon Gallatin Mundorf (1993)
- Douglas P. Munson (1992)
- Alton G. Murchison III (2012)
- Francis J. Murphy Jr. (2013)
- Jake F. Newell (1945)
- John Garwood Newitt (1973)
- William M. Nicholson (1988)
- Walter B. Nivens (1972)
Hon. Theofanis X. Nixon (2017) - John Hawkins Noblitt (2002)
H. Vernon Norwood Jr. (2017) - Wallace Sherrill Osborne (2003)
- Dotson G. Palmer (1996)
- Horace W. Palmer, Jr. (2019)
- Lewis H. Parham Jr. (2014)
- Charles Benjamin Park III (2009)
- G. Bruce Park (2007)
- Hon. Francis Iredell Parker (2008)
- Thomas Robert Payne (1996)
- Robert E. Perry Jr. (2003)
- Michael George Plumides Sr. (1995)
- William Edward Poe (1999)
Paul Jerome Polking (2022) - John Oliver Pollard (2015)
Scott T. Pollard (2020) - Charles Emmett Porterfield (2004)
- Guy Elwyn Possinger (1997)
- Hon. Robert Daniel Potter (2009)
Rodney Lamar Purser (2020) - Pinkney Ray Rankin (1999)
James Dennis Rash (2017)
Francis Marion Redd (1956) - Christy Eve Reid (2014)
- John Thomas Rendleman (1994)
- John Frank Renger Jr. (1997)
Channing Orr Richards (2020) - Williams J. Richards Jr. (1993)
- Marvin Lee Ritch (1971)
- Henry Haywood Robbins (1969)
Susanne M. Robicsek (2022) - John M. Robinson (1963)
- Leroy Robinson (2015)
- William Smith O'Brien Robinson (1967)
- Hon. Elmer E. Rouzer (1977)
Bynum "Bufi" Griffin Rudisill (2022) - Thomas Chalmers Ruff (2009)
- Robert Franklin Rush (2013)
- Robert Gregg Sanders (2009)
- William Hall Scarborough (1994)
- John Schuber Jr. (1998)
- E. Glenn Scott Jr. (1969)
- Robert Lynch Scott (1972)
Carl S. Shabica (2015)
Edward "Ted" Shapack (2023) - John D. Shaw (1971)
- Hon. Thomas J. Shaw (1937)
- Michael Anthony Patrick Sheely (2001)
Dalbert U. Shefte (2023) - William A. Shuford (1989)
- Michael Stuart Shulimson (1994)
- David T. Simpson Jr. (2012)
- Frank K. Sims Jr. (1974)
Henry Lee Sloan, III (2013) - John Humphrey Small (1974)
- George A. Smith (1938)
- Gibson Locke Smith Jr. (2013)
- Hon. Frank Warren Snepp Jr. (1997)
- Warren Carlisle Stack (1990)
Barry M. Storick, Sr. (2020) - Margaret Berry Street (1967)
- Robert B. Street (1972)
- Henry Lamar Strickland (1973)
- Hon. J. Edward Stukes (1994)
- William Watts Sturges (2011)
James M. Sullivan (2022)
Philip Summa (2022) - Carol Davis Taliaferro (1960)
- Hiero Louis Taylor (1944)
- Richard Elton Thigpen (2002)
- C. Sydnor Thompson Jr. (2015)
- Charles Walter Tillet Jr. (1952)
- Benjamin Thompson Tison III (1994)
- Joseph Collins Travis (2009)
- F. Joseph Treacy Jr. (1997)
Jeffrey P. Trent (2012)
Minette Conrad Trosch (2018)
David P. Underwood (1982) - William K. Van Allen (2011)
- Thomas Wilmot Varnon (1956)
Hamlin L. "Ham" Wade (2018)
Julius Jennings Wade (2018) - James E. Walker (1993)
- P. Peyton Warley (1992)
- Hon. Wilson Warlick (1978)
- William Allen Watts Jr. (1996)
- Richard Beverly Raney Webb (2012)
- William Baxter Webb (1968)
- Maurice A. Weinstein (1995)
Alfred Franklin Welling, Jr. (2009) - Richard Marshall Welling (1967)
- John Oliver West Jr. (1974)
- Parker Whedon (2012)
Christopher Allen White (2018) - C. Nicks Williams (2009)
Samuel Sykes Williams (2022) - Henry Hall Wilson III (2009)
- Samuel A. Wilson III (2007)
- Thomas D. Windsor (2014)
William Michael Workman (2019)
James Frederick Wood (2018) - Thomas Henry Wyche (1997)
- John B. Yorke (2007)
Catherine A. Zanga (2014)