Miami, Florida
TUMPSON, JOAN, artist, lawyer and beloved daughter, sister and aunt, passed away at her home in Miami on Feb. 11. A graduate of Yale Law School, she practiced law for many years in New York City and Miami before becoming a full-time artist. Her work has been displayed in numerous galleries as...
Read MoreA great friend and colleague. Brilliant lawyer with extra-legal interests and pursuits. All of that and more made her a fascinating human. I'm late to the Condolences for my own complications. I was hoping my search would find her on this side of the River. But Evan ten yrs too late I had to express my sorrow. RIP.
Marc Fagelson
August 11, 2025 | Friend
A nice lady and a good teacher of the law.
November 17, 2015
Oh, Joanie, how could this be! I so hoped to see you next week. Can someone please tell me what happened? She was so young and exciting. Now this?
Jim Rogers
February 26, 2015 | Singpaore
Very sorry to hear about this. Joan and I were colleagues at the AP in NYC. She could have been a heck of a reporter, had she chosen that path.
Tom Diemer
June 05, 2014 | Bethesda, MD
As a friend, and Joan's web designer. I am deeply saddened to have just learned of her passing. As an art curator in New Haven, CT, I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to meet Joan in 2003, become friends, and to sponsor an exhibit of her paintings at the time of her 30th Year Class Reunion of the Yale University Law School that November. I was hoping to do the same in 2013, but she had to cancel her plans to attend her 40th at Yale, due to health concerns. Joan was a kind and...
Johnes Ruta
March 07, 2014 | New Haven, CT
I became friends with Joan in the final months of her life. She was a splendid person dealing with enormous heartbreak over the loss of her beloved husband. I was so impressed with her talent, spirit and her friends who really cared for her
Connie Coopersmith
March 04, 2014 | Miami Beach
I am so sorry to learn of Joan's passing. She was a woman of great compassion, hugely talented, quick-witted and, most of all, deeply in love with her family. My sympathies go out to her mother Helen, sister Jill, brothers Daniel, Albert and Toby and all of her nieces and nephews.
David Haynes
February 21, 2014
Too young to leave us. You've definitely left a legacy and you will be missed !
Much love to Jill and the rest of the family.
Jenni Marshall
February 19, 2014 | St,
My love and my thoughts continue to be with all of you. I have so many wonderful memories of times in Huntington, how much fun it was to visit with your family. I am truly so sad that I could not be with you to celebrate my cousin Joan's life. What a brilliant and talented woman! I am hoping that you are all doing as well as possible.
Much love,
Nance
February 18, 2014
