UT College of Law honors late Judge L. Kirby Matherne

From http://www.law.utk.edu/news/08Matherne.htm

The University of Tennessee College of Law will dedicate the L. Kirby Matherne Moot Court Classroom with a ceremony April 18, beginning at 4 p.m., in the second floor rotunda of the law school.

The naming will honor the late Kirby Matherne, of Brownsville, Tennessee. Matherne was a 1948 graduate of the UT College of Law and served as a Judge of the Tennessee Court of Appeals. He died in 2000, at age 80.

Judge Matherne was appointed to the Western Section of the Tennessee Court of Appeals by the late Governor Buford Ellington in 1968, and served as Presiding Judge of the Western Section from 1978 until 1982. He retired in 1982.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in 1973 by the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association and received Service Awards from the Tennessee Judicial Conference and the Tennessee Young Lawyers Conference. An active Democrat, he served as a delegate to the 1953 Tennessee Constitutional Convention.

Judge Matherne served 45 months in the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II and was company commander of the Brownsville Tennessee National Guard for 13 years. Matherne was a member and past president of the Brownsville Rotary Club; a past president of the Brownsville Jaycees; and served as chairman of the Haywood County Board of Education during the mid-1960s. Judge Matherne, who also served as Executive Director of the Brownsville Housing Authority, was honored in the mid-1980s when Kirby Place, in Brownsville, was named for him.

Judge Matherne was married for 56 years to Betty Graham Matherne, a Sullivan County, Tenn., native. They had three daughters, Jean Matherne Avery and Jo Matherne Meschendorf of Brownsville, Tenn., and Debra Matherne Jones of Randolph, N.J., all of whom graduated from UT-Knoxville; and two sons, Louis K. Matherne, Jr. of Richmond, Va., and Graham Matherne of Nashville. They also had six grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

For more about Judge Kirby Matherne, visit http://www.law.utk.edu/news/08Matherne.htm