Legal pioneer killed in Nashville crosswalk remembered for advocacy

A Nashville neighborhood is mourning the loss of a legal trailblazer and domestic violence advocate who was killed in a pedestrian accident involving a country music singer.

Dot Dobbins, 77, was struck and killed Sunday night while using a crosswalk on 3rd Avenue North. The driver, country music singer Conner Smith, was not charged after police determined he wasn’t impaired, though investigators said he failed to yield to Dobbins in the crosswalk.

Friends and colleagues remember Dobbins as a pioneering female attorney who dedicated her career to protecting vulnerable women and families…

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