Tazewell T. Shepard III ’76
Tazewell T. Shepard III ’76 died October 10, 2022, at his Huntsville, Alabama, home. “Taze” attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Eton College in Windsor, United Kingdom. He received an A.B. in history from Dartmouth and earned his J.D. from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His maternal grandfather was U.S. Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama, who was Adlai Stevenson’s running mate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1952. Taze founded Sparkman Shepard PC in Huntsville, where he practiced law for more than 40 years, most recently with his son and daughter-in-law, Ty and Sarah Shepard. He served on numerous professional, school, university, nonprofit, and civic boards, including as president of the Board of Lawyer Services in Alabama, which provides free legal aid to low-income families. Taze was immediate past president of the Alabama State Bar Association, a member of the board of trustees of the Alabama Law Foundation, and a past president of the Huntsville Bar Association and the Madison County Volunteer Lawyer Program. In 2022 he received the prestigious William D. Scruggs Jr. Service to the Bar Award. He retired after serving for more than 40 years as a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee for the northern district of Alabama. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Pamela; children Tazewell IV, John, Hunt, Riley, and Jana; and six grandchildren.
