MY 2 CENTS

Everyone has an opinion, and this monthly feature in the Downtowner Magazine shares the insight, wisdom, lessons, advice, humor, and from-the-heart stories told by the city's well-known and not-so-well-known personalities.

Myron Lowery
Memphis City Council Chairman


Bill Cockroft

86-Year-Old 2009 National Senior Olympics Qualifier


Linn Sitler
Memphis and Shelby County
Film Commissioner

Greg Barton
Double Olympic Gold Medal Kayaker


Frances Hooks
The Rock of Benjamin Hooks


Knox Phillips
Music Publisher, producer,
and Memphis promoter

My Harrison
FBI Special Agent in Charge,
Memphis Field Office


Kallen Esperian
Operatic Soprano

William Novick
Founder and Medical Director of the International Children’s Heart Foundation & Professor of Surgery and International Child Health at the University of Tennessee

Debb Taylor
Co-founder and Director of Midsouth Therapy Dogs and Friends, and Co-owner of BarkNBray Ranch — GoldenzRule Golden Retrievers

Rev. Birgitte "Pastor Bee" French
Executive Director of FirstWorks and Pastor of Union Avenue United Methodist Church

Marilou Awiakta
Internationally Acclaimed Native American Poet, Storyteller, Essayist

A C Wharton Jr.
Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee

Josh Pastner
Head Coach, University of Memphis Tigers Basketball

Rarecas Bonds
Founder, Beale Street Flippers

Patt Kerr Tigrett
Memphis Philanthropist and Chairmain/CEO/Designer, Pat Kerr Inc


Larry A. Godwin
Director of Police Services
for the City of Memphis

Di Anne Price
Storytelling Piano Player


Janice M. Holder
Chief Justice, Tennessee
Supreme Court

George Hunt
Visual Artist

Denise Burnett
O.R. Nurses Inc. Co-Founder

Michael V. Warr
Porter-Leath Children's Center

Santa Claus
North Pole helper Jim Kyle

 

Dr. Louis G. Britt
Performed the First Kidney
Transplant in Memphis

Pat Halloran
President and CEO,
The Orpheum Theatre

Deborah Hester Harrison
President and CEO,
Girls Inc. of Memphis

Gaston Davis

Gaston Davis
Manager of
Blue Suede Brigade

Cynthia Ham
archer>malmo Principal/Chief Public Relations Officer

Ken Hudson
Downtown Neighborhood Association President 2011
LEED-Accredited Architect,
Architecture Inc.

Marvell Thomas
STAX Records Pioneer,
Memphis Sound Musician

Greg Coy
Anchor, WHBQ FOX 13
"Good Morning Memphis"

Dorothy Gunther Pugh
Founding Artistic Director,
Ballet Memphis

Stephen C. Reynolds
President and Chief Executive Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care

Johnnie B. Watson
President
LeMoyne-Owen College

Onie Johns

Onie Johns
Founder
The Caritas Village

Mark Luttrell

Mark H. Luttrell Jr.
Mayor
Shelby County, Tennessee

Willy Bearden

Willy Bearden
Memphis Author and Filmmaker