Dudley Vanness Sutphin (October 25, 1875 – May 18, 1926) was a prominent resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, a well-known attorney and judge, a French Legion of Honor medal winner, and an outstanding amateur tennis player. Education & career Sutphin graduated from the Franklin School in Cincinnati and went on to Yale University where he was a member of the Freshman Crew team (which rowed on the River Thames in England against Harvard and Columbia1). He also was a member of the tennis team and Delta Kappa Epsilon. After spending the summer of 1897 abroad with fellow Cincinnatian and Yale graduate Charles B. DeCamp, Sutphin entered the University of Cincinnati College of Law from which he graduated in 1900. While there he was a member of Phi Delta Phi. He was admitted to Ohio Bar in June 1900, and after working at several firms (Holhster & Hollister, Kittredge & Wilby and practicing alone from 1904–1908), he formed a firm in 1910 with Walter A. DeCamp under the name DeCamp & Sutphin, which in 1920 would become DeCamp, Sutphin & Brumleve. He continued with that firm until his retirement. He also was a vice-president of Third National Bank of Cincinnati; assistant city solicitor of Cincinnati; judge of Superior Court; treasurer of the board of Trustees of the Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church; and vice-president, secretary and treasurer of Cincinnati’s Yale Club. He was commissioned as a Major in the Judge Advocate General's Department, Officers' Reserve Corps, on July 18, 1917 and assigned to the Headquarters of the Central Department at Chicago on August 1. In September of that year, he went to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as Assistant Judge Advocate and later as Judge Advocate in the investigation, preparation, and trial by court martial of the Houston Riot cases, which were riots by the Third Battalion, 24th United States Infantry. The riot was a mutiny by 150 black soldiers which lasted one afternoon and resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and 15 civilians. The rioters were tried at three courts-martial. Fourteen were executed, and forty-one were given life sentences. Sutphin was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on October 25, 1918. After the armistice of World War I, he served as Judge Advocate and as Commanding Officer of the Rents, Requisitions, and Claims Department of American Embarkation Center at Le Mans, France. There, he was decorated with the French Legion of Honor on April