enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Memphis City Council - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_City_Council

    Memphis City Council committees meet on every first and third Tuesday of every month. [3] The first city council took office in 1968, after the modern city charter had been approved by Memphis voters in a 1966 referendum. The 1966 charter set the salary for council members at $6,000, which was later raised to $20,100 in 1995, and later raised ...

  3. Jim Strickland (politician) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Strickland_(politician)

    James Steven Strickland Jr. (born October 22, 1963) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 64th mayor of Memphis, Tennessee between 2016 and 2024. Strickland is a Democrat, [1] he previously served as a member of the Memphis City Council. Strickland is also an adjunct professor at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

  4. Carol Chumney - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Chumney

    She represented the fifth district (East Memphis and Midtown) on the Memphis, Tennessee City Council from 2004 to 2007. Chumney came in second place in the Democratic primary for Shelby County mayor in 2002, [ 1 ] and within 7 points of being elected the first woman Memphis mayor in 2007. [ 2 ]

  5. Government of Memphis, Tennessee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Memphis...

    The city of Memphis is split between two congressional districts. The western three-fourths of the city, including downtown, forms the core of the 9th District, which has been represented by Democrat Steve Cohen since 2007. Cohen was the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in more than 40 years.

  6. Justin J. Pearson - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_J._Pearson

    Justin Jamal Pearson (PEER-sən; born January 7, 1995) [1] is an American activist and politician. [2] He is a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 86th district, covering parts of the city of Memphis.

  7. Myron Lowery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Lowery

    Myron Lowery is an American politician who served as the Mayor Pro Tem of Memphis, Tennessee, from July 31, 2009 to October 26, 2009. He is a former television news anchor for WMC-TV 5 in Memphis. Mayor Pro Tem Lowery has served on the Memphis City Council since 1991.

  8. W. W. Herenton - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._W._Herenton

    After graduating from Le Moyne-Owen, Herenton began working at Memphis City Schools as a fifth-grade teacher in Memphis. During the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike, Herenton marched in solidarity with the sanitation workers; however, the choice to march with Martin Luther King, Jr. and wear the sign declaring "I AM A MAN" resulted in threats of termination and ostracism from school district ...

  9. Ford family (Memphis) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_family_(Memphis)

    John N. Ford (May 3, 1942- ), who served in the Memphis City Council in 1971 representing South Memphis' District 6 and served for 30 years in the Tennessee Senate beginning in 1974. Kemba Ford, who ran and lost for Memphis City Council in 2011, and ran but lost for TN State House 91st district in 2013.