ATTORNEY PROFILES

• John R. Cheadle, Jr.
• Dudley A. Cheadle
• Mary Barnard Cheadle

HISTORY OF THE CHEADLES

John Cheadle, Jr. and his sister Evalina Cheadle practiced with their father, John R. Cheadle, Sr., a Nashville lawyer for 37 years, before he passed away in 1997.  Brother, Dudley A. Cheadle, joined the practice in 2005.

Grandfather John A. Cheadle was a Texas lawyer.  Great-grandfather John B. Cheadle was an Oklahoma attorney admitted in 1906 when Oklahoma was still a territory.  He later became the Dean of the Oklahoma University Law School.  Another great-grandfather, James D. B. DeBow, practiced law in Nashville in the early 1900s and was a Davidson County, Tennessee Criminal Court Judge.