Background
Turner, Jerome was born on February 18, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Cooper and Eugenia (Morrison) Turner.
Turner, Jerome was born on February 18, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Cooper and Eugenia (Morrison) Turner.
Bachelor, Washington and Lee University, 1964;
Bachelor of Laws cum laude, Washington and Lee University, 1966;
Master of Laws in Judicial Process, University of Virginia, 1998.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Turner received a B.A. from Washington and Lee University in 1964 and an LL.B. from Washington and Lee University School of Law in 1966. He was a law clerk, Hon. Robert Malcolm McRae Jr., U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee from 1966 to 1967.
He was in private practice in Memphis from 1967 to 1988. On July 1, 1987, Turner was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the very seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee vacated by McRae. Turner was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 8, 1987, and received his commission on December 9, 1987.
Turner served in that capacity until his death, in 2000, in Memphis.
Treasurer Elect Don Sundquist to Congress Committee, l98l-82, Reelect Don Sundquist to Congress Committee, l983-86. Fellow Tennessee Bar Foundation, Memphis and Shelby County Bar Foundation (board directors 1982-1983, 87, 96-98). Member Memphis and Shelby County Bar Association (president 1988, treasurer 1984, board directors 1978-1979), Federal Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Leo Bearman Senior American Inn of Court (president 1995-1996, 97), Order of Coif, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Shirley Broadhead, October 18, 1969 (divorced July 1986). Children: Alexandra Cox, Christian Annette. Married Kay Farese, August 22, 1987.
