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Board of Governors

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Pooja Shah

Founder, The PS Table

Board Chair

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Kontji Anthony

TV Host, WREG News Channel 3

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Laura Barrett

Independent Consultant

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Judith Black Moore

Principal, J. Black Moore Strategies // CEO, Taking Back the Future

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Christopher Coleman

Executive Director, Teach For America Memphis

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Pat Danehy

Principal, Director of Client Communications and Chief Compliance Officer, NewSouth Capital Management

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Alisa Haushalter

Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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Jay Healy

Partner and Managing Director, Beacon Pointe Advisors

Investment Committee Chair

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Christopher Hearn

Resident Partner-In-Charge, Banks, Finley, White & Co.

Audit & Finance Committee Chair

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Jeanne Jemison

Retired Physician

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Chris Kelley

Executive Director & President, Barret School of Banking

Governance Committee Chair

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Brook Lester

Managing Principal and Chief Wealth Strategist, Diversified Trust

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Chip Marston

Founder and Managing Partner, The Marston Group

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Linda McNeil

Senior Account Manager, Gaskill Strategies

Strengthening Nonprofits Committee Chair

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George Nassar

Attorney, Glankler Brown

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Hallie Peyton

DIrector of Client Services, Legacy Wealth Management

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Ray Pohlman

Retired, AutoZone

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Amanda Lee Keikialoha Savage

Assistant Professor of History, University of Memphis // Co-founder, Native RITES

Community Initiatives Committee Chair

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Pedro Velasquez

Executive Director, Lifedoc Health

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James West

CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Calydon Capital

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Molly Wexler

Community Volunteer

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Russ Wigginton

President, National Civil Rights Museum

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Dorcas Young Griffin

Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, Shelby County Government

Honorary Trustees

Board members who have served their maximum term (currently, nine years) are named honorary trustees in recognition of their longtime, valued service to the Community Foundation.

Sudhir K. Agrawal
Bert E. Barnett*
Kathleen Blair
James A. Breazeale
Larry H. Bryan
Sandra H. Burke
G. Rice Byars, Jr.
Bruce E. Campbell
Gale Jones Carson
Kenneth F. Clark, Jr.
Marshall Clark
Kate Gilliland Connell
Kathy Moore Cowan
Hal D. Crenshaw*
Meg T. Crosby*
V. Lynn Evans*
Susan H. Foster
Hugh C. Fraser
Katina H. Gaines
Charles C. Gerber
J.W. Gibson
Robert D. Gooch, Jr.
Robert D. Gooch III
George M. Griesbeck
Robert S. Hester, Jr.
Fred D. Johnson
Mimsy Jones
Linda S. Kaplan*
Ellen Cooper Klyce
Charles Lee
Carol C. Levy
Fred C. Lofton

Yvonne S. Madlock
Duncan L. Miller*
Allen B. Morgan, Jr.
Snow Morgan
Herman Morris, Jr.*
Olin F. Morris
D. Stephen Morrow
William L. Moss
Jacqueline L. Nesbit
David T. Popwell
R. Michael Potter
Bob Quinn
William Reed, Jr.*
Kenneth S. Robinson
Diane G. Sachs
Dianne A. Shockley-Mall
Robert Smithwick III*
Anne H. Stokes
Bruce C. Taylor
Paulo L. Teixeira
Linda L. Tharp
N. Gordon Thompson
John W. Ueleke*
Michael D. Uiberall
Lashell Vaughn
Harish V. Vishria
Regina Walker
Sonia L. Walker
Ronald A. Walter
Joy B. Wiener
Willis H. Willey
James D. Witherington, Jr.*

* Former Board Chair