Retirement Board

Meeting

  • 10:00 am
  • Second Tuesday of the month
  • 160 N. Main St, 5th Floor - Richards Conference Room
    Memphis, TN 38103

Members

The Retirement Board consists of 13 voting members who serve four-year terms (unless otherwise specified). Members include:

  • The County Mayor or his written designee
  • The Chairman of the Shelby County Commission or his written designee
  • The Chairman of the County Commission Budget Committee
  • The County's duly-appointed director of Administration and Finance
  • One popularly-elected, full-time county official who shall serve for the period of his/her elected term (elected by majority vote by all of the County's additional full-time, popularly-elected officials)
  • Two County employees who are active participants with at least 71/2 years of participation in the retirement system
  • Two pensioned participants in the Retirement System
  • Three citizens of Shelby County who have demonstrated that they are knowledgeable in pension systems and are not participants in the system
  • Two citizens of Shelby County who have extensive financial knowledge and background.

Functions & Authority

The functions of the Retirement Board are to administer the constituent retirement plans, to invest the retirement funds and to analyze and recommend proposed amendments to the retirement plans when advisable.

Members are:

 Mayor Lee Harris
 Chairman
 Mickell Lowery
 Chair of  County Commission Committee
 Micheal Whaley
 County Commission Budget Committee
 Audrey Tipton
 Director of Administration & Finance
 Heidi Kuhn
 Elected full-time County Official
 Jason Hunter
 An employee with 7 ½ years of participation in the Retirement System
 James Martin
 Pensioned Participants
 Lee Wessels
 Pensioned Participants
 Christine Richards
 Citizens of Shelby County Tennessee that have knowledgeable in the pension system
 Reginald Manning
 Citizens of Shelby County Tennessee that have knowledgeable in the pension system
 Gortria Banks
 Citizens of Shelby County Tennessee that have knowledgeable in the pension system
 Craig Cardwell
 Citizens of Shelby County Tennessee who may not but are not required to be a participant in the system
 Brian Kuhn
 Citizens of Shelby County Tennessee who may not but are not required to be a participant in the system




For additional information about this board, please contact Brenda Greene, Deputy Administrator, at (901) 222-2357, or Jesse Turner Jr., manager of Pension Investments, at (901) 222-1955