JARVIS, THE HONORABLE JAMES H. II - died Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at his home in Knoxville.
Judge Jarvis was born in Knoxville on Feb. 28, 1937, to Howard F. Jarvis, a highly regarded trial lawyer in his day, and his wife, Eleanor. He had strong ties in Blount County, however, that went back to when his father bought Blackberry Farm and Inn.
Judge Jarvis ended up spending his last two years at Maryville High School. Then he attended the University of Tennessee, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and was awarded the Significant Sig Award in 1998. He received a law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1960.
He went into practice with his father and was in private practice from 1960 to 1972. His father's law partner, Paul Parker, taught him how to fly fish and handle a shotgun, resulting in longtime hobbies of fishing and hunting.
He was appointed judge of the Law and Equity Court for Blount County in 1972, serving five years. Then he was elected judge of the 30th Judicial Circuit Court in Blount County, a position he held until 1984, when President Ronald Reagan appointed him U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Judge Jarvis became a second judge in the district, a new position, at a time when U.S. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. was Senate majority leader. The district's remaining judges will take over his part-time caseload.
The judge was a member of the bar associations at the local and state levels and the Federal Judges Association, and he formerly was on the executive committee of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association and a member of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, of which he was president in 1983-84. He was a member of the American Inn of Court Hamilton Burnett Chapter and the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Codes of Conduct 1994-2000.
Judge Jarvis was instrumental in establishing the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Inc. He also was a past member of the Board of Advisers of the UT College of Law and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Maryville College 1986-1991; the board of the Detoxification Rehabilitation Institute of Knoxville; and the board of the Metropolitan Knoxville YMCA.
Judge Jarvis leaves his wife, former Knox County General Sessions Court Judge Gail Stone Jarvis; former wives who are the mothers of his five children, Martha Stapleton Jarvis of Tampa, FL and Pam Duncan Miller of Maryville. The children are James Jarvis III, Leslie Prior, Ann Pruitt, Kathryn Jarvis and Louise Flynn; grandchildren, Morgan Bare, Flannery, Max and Wilson Pruitt, and Calvin Flynn; nieces, Eleanor Fariba, Ann Hart, Liza Sumowski, and Amelia Bradham. He also has a sister, Kathryn Jones of Macon, GA.
There will be a memorial service 3:00 p.m., Friday, June 22nd at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, with the Rev. John C. Ross officiating. A committal will follow in the Courtyard of the Federal Courthouse. The family will receive friends following the services in the Great Hall of the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Dr. Jennifer Garst Lung Cancer Research Program, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3198, 75178 Morris Blvd., Durham, NC 27710, the James H. Jarvis II Life and Law Scholarship, University of Tennessee College of Law, 1505 Cumberland Ave., Suite 157, Knoxville, TN 37996-1810, or the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, P.O. Box 52025, Knoxville, TN 37950-2025. Arrangements by Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel. www.rosemortuary.com
Judge Jarvis was born in Knoxville on Feb. 28, 1937, to Howard F. Jarvis, a highly regarded trial lawyer in his day, and his wife, Eleanor. He had strong ties in Blount County, however, that went back to when his father bought Blackberry Farm and Inn.
Judge Jarvis ended up spending his last two years at Maryville High School. Then he attended the University of Tennessee, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and was awarded the Significant Sig Award in 1998. He received a law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1960.
He went into practice with his father and was in private practice from 1960 to 1972. His father's law partner, Paul Parker, taught him how to fly fish and handle a shotgun, resulting in longtime hobbies of fishing and hunting.
He was appointed judge of the Law and Equity Court for Blount County in 1972, serving five years. Then he was elected judge of the 30th Judicial Circuit Court in Blount County, a position he held until 1984, when President Ronald Reagan appointed him U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Judge Jarvis became a second judge in the district, a new position, at a time when U.S. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. was Senate majority leader. The district's remaining judges will take over his part-time caseload.
The judge was a member of the bar associations at the local and state levels and the Federal Judges Association, and he formerly was on the executive committee of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association and a member of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, of which he was president in 1983-84. He was a member of the American Inn of Court Hamilton Burnett Chapter and the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Codes of Conduct 1994-2000.
Judge Jarvis was instrumental in establishing the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Inc. He also was a past member of the Board of Advisers of the UT College of Law and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Maryville College 1986-1991; the board of the Detoxification Rehabilitation Institute of Knoxville; and the board of the Metropolitan Knoxville YMCA.
Judge Jarvis leaves his wife, former Knox County General Sessions Court Judge Gail Stone Jarvis; former wives who are the mothers of his five children, Martha Stapleton Jarvis of Tampa, FL and Pam Duncan Miller of Maryville. The children are James Jarvis III, Leslie Prior, Ann Pruitt, Kathryn Jarvis and Louise Flynn; grandchildren, Morgan Bare, Flannery, Max and Wilson Pruitt, and Calvin Flynn; nieces, Eleanor Fariba, Ann Hart, Liza Sumowski, and Amelia Bradham. He also has a sister, Kathryn Jones of Macon, GA.
There will be a memorial service 3:00 p.m., Friday, June 22nd at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, with the Rev. John C. Ross officiating. A committal will follow in the Courtyard of the Federal Courthouse. The family will receive friends following the services in the Great Hall of the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Dr. Jennifer Garst Lung Cancer Research Program, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3198, 75178 Morris Blvd., Durham, NC 27710, the James H. Jarvis II Life and Law Scholarship, University of Tennessee College of Law, 1505 Cumberland Ave., Suite 157, Knoxville, TN 37996-1810, or the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, P.O. Box 52025, Knoxville, TN 37950-2025. Arrangements by Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel. www.rosemortuary.com
JARVIS, THE HONORABLE JAMES H. II - died Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at his home in Knoxville.
Judge Jarvis was born in Knoxville on Feb. 28, 1937, to Howard F. Jarvis, a highly regarded trial lawyer in his day, and his wife, Eleanor. He had strong ties in Blount County, however, that went back to when his father bought Blackberry Farm and Inn.
Judge Jarvis ended up spending his last two years at Maryville High School. Then he attended the University of Tennessee, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and was awarded the Significant Sig Award in 1998. He received a law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1960.
He went into practice with his father and was in private practice from 1960 to 1972. His father's law partner, Paul Parker, taught him how to fly fish and handle a shotgun, resulting in longtime hobbies of fishing and hunting.
He was appointed judge of the Law and Equity Court for Blount County in 1972, serving five years. Then he was elected judge of the 30th Judicial Circuit Court in Blount County, a position he held until 1984, when President Ronald Reagan appointed him U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Judge Jarvis became a second judge in the district, a new position, at a time when U.S. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. was Senate majority leader. The district's remaining judges will take over his part-time caseload.
The judge was a member of the bar associations at the local and state levels and the Federal Judges Association, and he formerly was on the executive committee of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association and a member of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, of which he was president in 1983-84. He was a member of the American Inn of Court Hamilton Burnett Chapter and the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Codes of Conduct 1994-2000.
Judge Jarvis was instrumental in establishing the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Inc. He also was a past member of the Board of Advisers of the UT College of Law and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Maryville College 1986-1991; the board of the Detoxification Rehabilitation Institute of Knoxville; and the board of the Metropolitan Knoxville YMCA.
Judge Jarvis leaves his wife, former Knox County General Sessions Court Judge Gail Stone Jarvis; former wives who are the mothers of his five children, Martha Stapleton Jarvis of Tampa, FL and Pam Duncan Miller of Maryville. The children are James Jarvis III, Leslie Prior, Ann Pruitt, Kathryn Jarvis and Louise Flynn; grandchildren, Morgan Bare, Flannery, Max and Wilson Pruitt, and Calvin Flynn; nieces, Eleanor Fariba, Ann Hart, Liza Sumowski, and Amelia Bradham. He also has a sister, Kathryn Jones of Macon, GA.
There will be a memorial service 3:00 p.m., Friday, June 22nd at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, with the Rev. John C. Ross officiating. A committal will follow in the Courtyard of the Federal Courthouse. The family will receive friends following the services in the Great Hall of the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Dr. Jennifer Garst Lung Cancer Research Program, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3198, 75178 Morris Blvd., Durham, NC 27710, the James H. Jarvis II Life and Law Scholarship, University of Tennessee College of Law, 1505 Cumberland Ave., Suite 157, Knoxville, TN 37996-1810, or the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, P.O. Box 52025, Knoxville, TN 37950-2025. Arrangements by Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel. www.rosemortuary.com
Judge Jarvis was born in Knoxville on Feb. 28, 1937, to Howard F. Jarvis, a highly regarded trial lawyer in his day, and his wife, Eleanor. He had strong ties in Blount County, however, that went back to when his father bought Blackberry Farm and Inn.
Judge Jarvis ended up spending his last two years at Maryville High School. Then he attended the University of Tennessee, where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and was awarded the Significant Sig Award in 1998. He received a law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1960.
He went into practice with his father and was in private practice from 1960 to 1972. His father's law partner, Paul Parker, taught him how to fly fish and handle a shotgun, resulting in longtime hobbies of fishing and hunting.
He was appointed judge of the Law and Equity Court for Blount County in 1972, serving five years. Then he was elected judge of the 30th Judicial Circuit Court in Blount County, a position he held until 1984, when President Ronald Reagan appointed him U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Judge Jarvis became a second judge in the district, a new position, at a time when U.S. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. was Senate majority leader. The district's remaining judges will take over his part-time caseload.
The judge was a member of the bar associations at the local and state levels and the Federal Judges Association, and he formerly was on the executive committee of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association and a member of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, of which he was president in 1983-84. He was a member of the American Inn of Court Hamilton Burnett Chapter and the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Codes of Conduct 1994-2000.
Judge Jarvis was instrumental in establishing the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Inc. He also was a past member of the Board of Advisers of the UT College of Law and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Maryville College 1986-1991; the board of the Detoxification Rehabilitation Institute of Knoxville; and the board of the Metropolitan Knoxville YMCA.
Judge Jarvis leaves his wife, former Knox County General Sessions Court Judge Gail Stone Jarvis; former wives who are the mothers of his five children, Martha Stapleton Jarvis of Tampa, FL and Pam Duncan Miller of Maryville. The children are James Jarvis III, Leslie Prior, Ann Pruitt, Kathryn Jarvis and Louise Flynn; grandchildren, Morgan Bare, Flannery, Max and Wilson Pruitt, and Calvin Flynn; nieces, Eleanor Fariba, Ann Hart, Liza Sumowski, and Amelia Bradham. He also has a sister, Kathryn Jones of Macon, GA.
There will be a memorial service 3:00 p.m., Friday, June 22nd at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, with the Rev. John C. Ross officiating. A committal will follow in the Courtyard of the Federal Courthouse. The family will receive friends following the services in the Great Hall of the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Dr. Jennifer Garst Lung Cancer Research Program, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3198, 75178 Morris Blvd., Durham, NC 27710, the James H. Jarvis II Life and Law Scholarship, University of Tennessee College of Law, 1505 Cumberland Ave., Suite 157, Knoxville, TN 37996-1810, or the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, P.O. Box 52025, Knoxville, TN 37950-2025. Arrangements by Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel. www.rosemortuary.com
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