ONE TOUGH MOTHER
Jerri Green for Memphis City Council
Jerri Green is a life-long Memphian, wife, mother, and attorney.
Jerri Green is a product of the Memphis public schools, graduating from White Station High School. She holds a J.D. from Georgetown University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she graduated with majors in English and Political Science. She has practiced in public interest law in areas ranging from international human rights to criminal defense, in Washington, D.C., Nashville, and Memphis. She also taught criminal law and juvenile justice for almost a decade through the University of Phoenix. She has worked at the University Memphis Law School and was the previous Executive Director of the Community Legal Center where she worked to advance the mission of bridging the justice gap in the Memphis community. She is a licensed attorney in the state of Tennessee and a member of the Memphis Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, the Association for Women Attorneys, and the American Inns of Court. Along with her husband, Patrick, she is proud to be raising second generation Memphians – Beau, Vivienne, and Wilder. She proudly calls Memphis her home.
Jerri Green is an advisor, advocate, and agent for change.
Jerri Green is currently Senior Policy Advisor to Mayor Lee Harris where she works on many issues, from Women’s Health and Public Safety to Refugee Assistance and Blight Remediation. Her accomplishments in this role include leading projects to insure over 70% of the local prison population was vaccinated at the height of COVID, finalizing the last group of Shelby County employees received a living wage, and establishing a first of its kind free gun lock by mail program. She has created projects to ensure transitional housing for vulnerable LGBTQ+ is funded, maternal care for women in need is supported in light of the Dobbs decision, and justice impacted individuals are given a second chance at employment in Shelby County. Her work, from ending criminalization of HIV status in the state of Tennessee to providing public transportation for indigent individuals to welcoming Afghan refugees to our community, is always grounded in lifting up those whose voices are all too often ignored.
Jerri Green is a leader.
Jerri Green was named a Superwoman in Business by the Memphis Business Journal in 2023 and was selected as a fellow for the Aspen Institute’s Memphis Workforce Leadership Academy. She is the past President of the Democratic Women of Shelby County, a member of the Board of Directors for the Girls, Inc. and the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County, and was the statewide election lead for the Tennessee Moms Demand Action Chapter. She ran a very competitive race for state house in 2020 and was the host of a local broadcast show called “Public Square” covering civic engagement issues. She was just recently honored by the Tennessee State Senate in 2023 for her outstanding contributions to our state with a proclamation during Women’s History Month.