Charles H. O'Brien

Charles Herbert O'Brien (July 30, 1920 – January 18, 2007), was a Tennessee State Senator in the 83rd and 84th Tennessee General Assemblies, a justice of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (elected in 1970) and Tennessee Supreme Court (1987–1994), and the husband of well-known Tennessee Democratic politician Anna Belle Clement O'Brien, who was the sister of the Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement and served as her brother's chief of staff and as a state senator.

Biography

O'Brien was born July 30, 1920, in

. He served on that court for seven years, retiring in 1994. Earlier that year he had become chief justice.

O'Brien married Anna Belle Clement in 1966. They remained married at the time of his death in 2007. He died in Crossville from complications of diabetes. He had a son and two daughters by a previous marriage; his daughters, Diane Solomon and Heather O'Brien survived him.

References

• Boan, John P. (January 19, 2007). "Former Chief Justice O'Brien dies at 86". The Tennessean.
• "Justice Charles O'Brien Dies At Crossville". The Chattanoogan. January 18, 2007.
• "Services set for former Tennessee chief justice". Crossville Chronicle. January 19, 2007. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013.
• Whitehouse, Ken (January 18, 2007). "Former Supreme Court Justice passes away in Crossville".
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