Memphis People in Business: June 1, 2023

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Here's a look at promotions, hirings, movers and newsmakers in the Memphis area business scene:

Memphis-based Diversified Trust, an independent comprehensive wealth management firm with offices throughout the Southeast and more than $8 billion of client assets under management, added William Crawford, chief executive officer and president of Pacolet Milliken, to its board of directors. Additionally, CEO Sam Graham will now serve as chairman with the recent retirement of James "Jim" Lientz.

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First Commercial Bank of Jackson, Mississippi, announced Debbie Field of Germantown joined the bank as its new chief financial officer. With more than 25 years of banking experience, Field brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the role. She spent 12½ years on the senior management as treasurer and senior vice president team at Landmark Community Bank prior to its acquisition in 2021 by Simmons Bank. Following the Simmons acquisition, Field worked as a transition team member at First Horizon Bank via Robert Half Resources Group Contract.

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The Butler Snow law firm announced a strategic alliance with Linda M. Maynor, William F. Stiers and Wade H. Heck of Maynor & Stiers LLC for federal government relations. Maynor, Stiers and Heck are registered Washington-based lobbyists who represent clients on legislative and governmental matters on Capitol Hill. With locations in Huntsville, Alabama, and Washington, they work with members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, representing clients on matters with the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, NASA, Homeland Security and Department of State.

  • Maynor serves as the managing partner for Maynor & Stiers. She built her practice over the past three decades during her tenure with two large law firms. She specializes in defense, aerospace and technology matters, and maintains a national security clearance.

  • Stiers worked as a legislative director for two U.S. Representatives on the House Armed Services Committee, as a political director for a large public relations firm, and as a managing director of the Washington, D.C., office for two large Southeastern law firms.

  • Heck’s 35-year history on Capitol Hill includes: professional staff member for the House Armed Services Committee; Chief of Staff for a U.S. Representative on the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees; government relations director for a nuclear components manufacturer to support the Department of Defense and National Aeronautics & Space Administration; and, a government relations professional for two large Southeastern law firms.

Castle Connolly released its Top Doctors list for 2023 and 27 of the surgeons listed in the Southeast Region in the orthopaedics category are from Campbell Clinic, by far the most of any practice throughout the entire region across Tennessee, Arkansas or Mississippi in this category. This year’s complete top doctors list represents more than 63,000 doctors or the top 7% of doctors across the nation, each of whom were nominated by their peers and vetted by Castle Connolly’s research team to be selected for inclusion in the 2023 list. This year marks Castle Connolly’s 30th anniversary of the publication of their annual list, which you can find at castleconnolly.com/2023-castle-connolly-top-doctors.

The American Cancer Society recognized the AutoZone Striders as the top national fundraiser for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, raising $202,222 for breast cancer research. In addition, the team was able to name an existing post-doctoral fellowship research grant in honor of its team. Named to honor all AutoZoners and their families touched by cancer, the AutoZone Breast Cancer Research Grant was awarded to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The project is led by researcher Diego A. Pedroza and is titled Treatment of Breast Cancer Metastasis by Therapeutic Manipulation of Macrophages with Combined Chemotherapy. The grant will be active until 2025. The AutoZone Striders are the second national fundraising team from Tennessee to name a research grant, the first being Nucor Steel in 2021. The AutoZone Striders will soon clear the $1 million mark for fundraising, designating them as a legacy Making Strides Against Breast Cancer team.

— Compiled by Daniel Ginsburg

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