1989
Phillip Tutor (BA), commentary editor of The Anniston (Ala.) Star, won two first-place writing awards at the Alabama Press Association’s Best Newspaper Contest in May. He took top honors in the APA’s largest circulation division for best human interest column and best editorial or commentary column.
1990
Mindy Okeon Mattingly (JD) joined Marx-Bensdorf Realtors as an affiliate broker. A licensed attorney, she previous practiced law with Glankler Brown. She also has served as director of development at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the Jewish Foundation of Memphis.
commissioner for legislative affairs since 2011. Nagoshiner earned her MBA from Belmont University. *
1999
Matt Buyer (JD) is senior vice president and trust services adviser for Pinnacle Financial Partners.
2000
Elizabeth Gentzler (BA, JD ’04) graduated from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in February. She completed officer training at Fort Benning last fall and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve JAG Corps. Gentzler participated in Military Operational Law events being held at Fort Dix, N.J., this spring.
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1992
W. David Darnell (BA) joined the law firm of Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan as of counsel.
1993
Marjorie S. Baker (JD) is a member of the trusts, estates and personal planning service team at the law firm Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs.
1994
Chad A. Cardwell (BBA, MBA ’04), an attorney with the Cardwell Law Firm, was certified as an Accredited Estate Planner (AEP) by the National Association of Estate Planers & Councils. The AEP designation is a graduate level specialization in estate planning.
1995
Dennis G. Sadler (MS, JD ’06) joined the Memphis office of law firm Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan.
Holly Guthrie (BBA) is director of events at Memphis College of Art.
Kirk Caraway (BA, JD ’97) was named a “Best of the Bar” finalist and honoree by the Memphis Business Journal. He is a partner with Allen, Summers, Simpson, Lillie & Gresham.
Dr. Debra Coplon (BSN, MSN ’08) opened her own family health care practice in East Memphis, Hope Primary Care. She earned her doctorate in clinical nursing practice from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2013. Coplon holds the designation of Diplomate of Comprehensive Care.
1998
Valerie Nagoshiner (BBA) was appointed chief of staff for the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH). She had served as TDH assistant
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2003
Andre B. Mathis (BA, JD ’07) joined the Glankler Brown law firm. Dr. Rashawn Ray (BA) was promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned a PhD in sociology from Indiana University in 2010. From 2010-2012, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy research scholar at the University of California, Berkeley/University of California, San Francisco.
2004
Jonathan “Blake” Vaughan (BA) accepted an appointment as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State.
2005
Margaret Pratt (BA) started her own travel agency, Margaret Pratt Travel, after 30 years in the industry. Her business is an affiliate of Brownell, the oldest travel agency in North America.
2006
John O. Alexander IV (JD), a partner with Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell, was appointed to a two-year term on the Commission on Continuing Legal Education by the Tennessee Supreme Court.
2007
Amanda Gibbons Duquette (MPA) is vice president of marketing and communications for Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, where she is responsible for marketing and brand management for a 32-county territory. Amber Floyd (BSEd, JD ’10) was selected as the winner in the “Ace Associate” category in the Memphis Business Journal’s inaugural Best of the Bar Awards. She is a senior associate with the Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Litigation & Dispute Resolution Service Team.
2008
TJ Werre (BA), sports anchor for WJTV-TV in Jackson, Miss., won the Mississippi AP Broadcasters award for Best TV Sportscaster in a large market for the third straight year. His WJTV team also won the Best Sportscast-Sports Program award for the second year in a row.
2009
Darnell Arnoult (MFA) published the poetry collection Galaxie Wagon. A reviewer wrote, “Arnoult’s work is grounded
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