Anderson, Former City Attorney, Passes

John Anderson, former City Attorney for the City of East Ridge, passed away on Saturday morning.

Anderson, 65, died after battling esophageal cancer.

Anderson, who worked under the administrations of Mayors Mike Steele and Brent Lambert, was credited by both men as being instrumental in the city being included as one of three in the state to qualify for the Border Region Act.

A native of the Nashville area, he was a Brock Scholar at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati School of Law where he was the recipient of the Chapin-Thomas Scholarship.

He joined the law practice of Grant Konvalinka & Harrison P.C. in 1990. His focus was on commercial real estate law and real estate development law.

Anderson was also a former legal counsel for the Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority.

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the chapel of Hamilton Funeral Home in Hixson. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home prior to the service.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.