The Hon. James Franklin is a Title IV-D child support magistrate for the Juvenile Court of Memphis & Shelby County in Tennessee. He joined the bench in 2018.
Prior to his judicial tenure, Franklin was a managing partner at Franklin Bynum since 2012. Before joining the firm, he managed his own private practice (2009 to 2012) and was an assistant general counsel for the Department of Children’s Services (2006 to 2009).
He earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Grambling State University in 1998. Franklin then completed a J.D. at Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, in 2003.