Retirement Board

Meeting


  • 10:00 am
  • First Tuesday of the month
  • 160 N. Main, Suite 850
    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
 Willie F. Brooks Jr.
  Chair of  County Commission Committee
 Vacant
  County Commission Budget Committee
 Mathilde Crosby
  Director of Administration & Finance
 Shelandra Ford
  Elected full-time County Official
 Vacant
  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
 Tracy Montgomery
  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
 Wanda Richard
  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 Nicole Taylor, manager of Retirement, at (901) 222-1956, or Jesse Turner Jr., manager of Pension Investments, at (901) 222-1955