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Chad Adams • 29
Assistant Director of Radiology
Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center
Rapidly rising through the ranks at East Tennessee’s Wellmont Health System, Adams started as a trauma technologist in 1999 and now leads more than 100 employees in the radiology department at the hospital system’s Bristol medical center. Adams helped develop the first computer system for Wellmont’s 50-bed hospital in Hawkins County, where he also helped expand the mammography program, started digitizing radiology images, and negotiated with Wellmont executives to add a CT scanner costing more than $1 million. He has helped cut hospital expenses more than $100,000 a year through contract negotiations. Adams now is charged with helping design the radiology side of a 10-bed hospital in Hancock County.

Kenneth Stanley Adams IV • 20
Minority Owner—Tennessee Titans
A future Titan of the gridiron, the 20-year-old grandson of Tennessee Titans owner K.S. “Bud” Adams presently attends the University of the South in Sewanee. He plans to join the Titans franchise promptly after graduation and is likely to be groomed in an executive role with the Nashville Kats arena foo ball team that his grandfather recently revived. Though one of a total of seven Adams grandchildren who will someday assume control of the Titans franchise, Kenneth appears to be the leading candidate to be the team’s future public face involved in the actual day-to-day operations of the team.

Marisa Baggett • 28
Sushi Chef—Do
A restaurant entrepreneur and chef, Baggett decided three years ago to make the most of her raw talent and roll into the world of sushi. Leaving behind her Starkville, Miss., dining empire (two restaurants, a coffee shop and a catering business), Baggett moved to Memphis and later headed to Venice, Calif., where she attended The California Sushi Academy to become a professional sushi chef and learned the art of Japanese-style cuisine. Now she is one of two sushi chefs at Do, a year-old sushi hotspot in Memphis that has received critical praise for its interior design and fare. Baggett also has been working on a sushi-information Web site and a book project.

Kelley Beaman • 28
Founder—Tennessee Institute for Governmental Ethics Reform
Last year, Beaman launched the Tennessee Institute for Governmental Ethics Reform, or TIGER, to raise public awareness about the lack of transparency in Tennessee State government. Her election year efforts created a statewide stir over lax lobbyist disclosure laws in Tennessee, simultaneously generating a public discussion about her political motivations. Beaman and her husband, automobile dealership magnate Lee Beaman, constitute two of the biggest contributors to political races in the state, giving predominantly to Republican candidates. New legislation expected to pass on Capitol Hill this year will address some of the concerns TIGER highlighted. Some now predict a political run for Kelley.

Joe Caldwell • 26
Co-owner—Pioneer Realty
Co-owner with his uncle of Pioneer Realty, Caldwell is one of three partners developing Ladd Landing in Roane County, an 800-acre mixed-use New Urbanism project that for all intents and purposes amounts to the construction of a small town with the look and feel of 1950s-era Kingston, Tenn. He is also currently developing two other 400-acre tracts. Caldwell authored grant proposals, then lobbied successfully for about $4 million in state and federal money to build infrastructure to support economic growth in Kingston. He is a board member of and special projects coordinator for Worldwide Interactive Network, an educational software company.

Elizabeth Calhoun • 28
Program manager—Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
Recruited from a hospital administration role at Wake Forest three years ago, Calhoun, who has a masters degree in hospital administration, joined four other founders in starting the Center for Better Health. The brainchild of Vanderbilt Medical Center chief Dr. Harry Jacobson, the center has become a magnet for top national health care leaders working to transform the delivery of health care, and Calhoun is on a leadership track that could propel her to a director post at the center in future years. Her extensive professional and community involvement includes serving on the board of Nashville’s Leadership Health Care and working with Relay For Life, which raises money for one of her many passions, cancer research.

Tausha Carmack • 28
Lobbyist—Tennessee Banker’s Association
A Bristol native, former vice president of the student government association at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and a U.T. torchbearer, Carmack is the number two lobbyist and assistant general counsel for the Tennessee Bankers Association, one of the most well respected and established organizations lobbying on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers laud Carmack’s professionalism, preparedness and ability to work members on both sides of the political aisle and testify that if Carmack briefs them they can take that information to the bank.

Heirs Appearing
It could be said that brothers Matt and Michael Daniels learned Jim Clayton’s business from the ground up.

While students at the University of Tennessee, each of the Cleveland, Tenn.-born, Crossville-bred brothers kicked off their internships for fellow Sigma Phi Epsilon brother Clayton in decidedly inauspicious ways. Matt’s first task was digging irrigation ditches on the manufactured housing tycoon’s five-acre homestead. Michael’s first task was planting ivy.

It wasn’t uncommon, however, for either intern to landscape by day only to be rubbing elbows with luminaries like former Gov. Don Sundquist or Cracker Barrel founder Dan Evins at a social gathering by night. As Clayton readily admits, that’s part of the methodology the former sharecropper’s son turned cash-rich Clayton Homes founder employs in grooming his young disciples.

So how did the interns turn out?

Following graduation, older brother Matt went to work for Clayton Homes, starting in internal audit. Eventually he was developing store deployment models to predict the success of proposed new retail locations. When Clayton re-entered the banking world with the purchase of his hometown bank in Henderson, 18 miles southeast of Jackson, Matt was dispatched to complete a demographic study of the area. Over the next year he would commute the 325 miles from Knoxville to Henderson three days a week helping to restore long neglected First State Bank. Clayton eventually placed Matt permanently in Henderson.

Now the 26-year-old is president and CEO of that flagship bank as well as an executive vice president with the parent company, FSB Bancshares. Under Matt’s leadership the bank has grown from 45 employees and $145 million in assets to 80 employees and $230 million in assets. According to an American Banking Association publication, Matt is the youngest president of a bank with at least $150 million in assets in the United States.

More significantly, Clayton tellsBusiness Tennessee that Matt is his heir apparent to lead FSB after he retires. It’s quite an accomplishment for a young man still steadying his legs in the banking business. Near completion of the 25-month Graduate School of Banking program at Louisiana State University, Matt is ratcheting up his banking acumen to match the faith and trust Clayton shows in him as his protégé.

Following his graduation from UT, Matt hand-picked younger brother Michael to succeed him as Clayton’s intern, a baton passing that is a key element in Clayton’s grooming of interns. Michael’s internship often entailed being loaned out for service to Clayton friends, including a UBS Financial Services executive to whom Michael explained an elaborate sound system installed in a condo Clayton had sold. Years later, the 24-year-old Michael is a financial advisor and partner with the wealth management team at UBS Knoxville comprised of Dugan McLaughlin and Patrick Roddy, whose grandfather created Knoxville’s Coca-Cola bottling plant. The group manages close to $700 million in assets. Michael handles the investments of a veritable who’s who in Tennessee, including Landair founder Scott Niswonger and Clayton. Unlike most other young financial advisors who wait years to gain access to clients, Michael added immediate value to the firm through his extensive relationships built through Clayton, bringing in $45 million to the firm in just 14 months.

Michael’s true claim to fame, however, is his significant though often overshadowed role in the sale of Clayton’s manufactured home empire to the world’s most respected investor.

As a sophomore at U.T., Michael took Al Auxier’s finance class. In it, Auxier spent most of his time talking about Warren Buffett, with whom he had a personal friendship following years of arranging trips for his B-school students to Berkshire Hathaway headquarters in Omaha, Neb. A financial world greenhorn at the time, Michael says the only Buffett he had ever heard of was musician Jimmy Buffett of “Margaritaville” fame.

In the class, Auxier referred repeatedly to Clayton Homes, giving reasons why it was the type of company Buffett would like. One day Michael told Auxier that his brother interned for Clayton and asked if he could attempt to organize a meeting between Auxier and Clayton. The two men met for the first time at the Cherokee Country Club in 2000. Nothing came of that meeting.

Two years later, Michael had replaced his older brother as Clayton’s intern. Now an upper classman, Michael went with Auxier on his annual trip to Omaha, meeting Buffet in person. Michael graduated later that year about the same time Clayton’s book First a Dream (FSB Press, 2002) was published. In charge of handling logistics for the book’s distribution, Michael took two books out of the first boxes that entered Clayton’s office and had the author sign them. One, Michael told Clayton, was for him; the other, for Buffett.

Two months later, Auxier was gearing up to take his next class of students to Omaha. Michael, already a U.T. graduate, couldn’t go. He put the signed copy of Clayton’s book in the hands of Richard Wright, the U.T. student Michael himself had hand-picked to succeed him as Clayton’s next intern. Off Wright went to Omaha. It wouldn’t be long before Wright was being hailed in papers including The Wall Street Journal as the college student who brought the publicly traded Knoxville company and its founder’s story to the Oracle of Omaha’s attention, inspiring Buffett to initiate the $1.7 billion purchase of Clayton Homes. (Wright will soon graduate from Vanderbilt and plans to go to work for First State Bank in Henderson.)

Asked about his own role in bringing about the Clayton Homes acquisition, Michael replies he’s just happy U.T.’s business program received so much attention over the book’s delivery. Clayton makes its clear that Wright is the famous guy who gave the book to Buffett while Daniels is the one who had the idea and made it happen. “Auxier and Michael Daniels obviously are visionaries,” Clayton says.

Given the Daniels brothers’ proclivity for big business, one might guess that they hail from a family of corporate titans. While that’s not the case, it could be argued that the brothers learned the skills of a salesman from their father, Dennis Daniels, a long-time evangelist, who for one stretch of four years took his family out on the road 48 weeks of the year. During that time the brothers were home schooled by their mother, now a Ph.D. and head of gifted programs with Cumberland County Schools.

The family settled down in 1990 when their father started a ministry in Crossville. It didn’t take long for the pre-teen brothers to reveal some entrepreneurial skill. Using leftover electronic equipment from their days on the road, they started a disc jockey business supplying music at junior high school dances. Though they gave friends a cut of the action for the use of their CDs and tapes, the Daniels brothers often grossed two to three thousand dollars a season for their efforts.

Such instincts teamed with the experience of getting a behind-the-curtain view of big business as Clayton’s interns augur well for the Daniels brothers. It’s just a matter of time before they emerge fully from the shadow of their mentor and join the ranks of Tennessee’s top business people.- D.R.

Anne Fentress • 29
Writer/producer—Country Music Television
A former New York City celebrity reporter, Fentress now lives in Nashville and interviews famous musicians, actors and other personalities for documentaries she produces for CMT. The Brown University graduate has produced three episodes of CMT’s Controversy documentary series, featuring artists like Martina McBride and filmmaker Mel Gibson, both of whom communicated their beliefs through their art. Fentress also has produced CMT’s 40 Greatest Done-Me-Wrong Songs and 40 Greatest Road Songs. A previous stint at Nashville Public Television landed her a role as an associate producer of Designed for Worship, a documentary on Nashville churches and houses of worship. Next up for Fentress is a two-hour documentary on Southern rock, which she is currently producing.

T.J. Gentle • 28
Attorney—Miller & Martin
Co-founder of the Chattanooga Technology Council in 2002 at the bottom of the post-bubble trough, Gentle has nurtured it into the successful group it is today. He has a vision of transforming the old industrial town into the tech hub of the future, and as a member of the board of Smart Furniture and former general counsel, helped the company raise $1.75 million in 2004. Other local tech firms that benefited indirectly from his work are NuMarkets and Tricycle, which received venture funding in 2004 in the time between the two Venture Forums held in Chattanooga. Gentle helped uplift two other local companies, Microwave Technology and nanofiber maker eSpin, which recently became the anchor tenant at the Enterprise South Industrial Park in Chattanooga. He is trying to establish a tech venture capital niche in Chattanooga, similar to the health care niche that made Nashville famous. Gentle hails from nearby Jasper in Marion County.

C & C’s Music Factory
For his 18th birthday, Curtis Givens enlisted his younger brother Corliss to help throw a party to celebrate. Amazingly, the Givens brothers—a year apart in age and popular athletes at their respective Memphis high schools—orchestrated a bash that drew almost 1,400 revelers inside a Memphis club, with hundreds outside unable to get into the crowded party.

Today, Curtis and Corliss own and operate The Premier Nightclub, a four-year-old club in an 18,000-square-foot space in East Memphis, and the duo frequently plans huge parties and charity events at The Premier and in cities across the Southeast. Celebrities in their own right, the Givens brothers’ ability to name-drop is nearly endless—their parties feature A-list stars like Puff Daddy, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and Outkast, along with a host of professional athletes.

The pair is responsible for employing more than 40 people, attracting hot DJs, hiring top-notch security, and maintaining strong relationships with major music producers. Corliss says their biggest challenge is finding and keeping good staff and “staying on top of your game because everybody wants to be in your place,” although many competitors have come and gone. He says he and Curtis work well together because they’re really close but don’t see each other every day.

“We grew up doing everything together,” Corliss says. When they were kids, Curtis and Corliss started a lawn service venture. In a neighborhood with lots of trees and big yards, the Givens brothers found plenty of customers with leaves that needed raking. Corliss jokes that their profit margin was higher back then—they needed only a rake and a few bags.

By the end of their high school years, the Givens brothers were mastering the art of producing sellout parties—a graduation party, a pajama party, and then a Good Friday party at the Memphis Cook Convention Center for 2,800 people. In 1999, they were asked to promote weekly high school parties at a Memphis nightclub, and they developed a reputation for providing good music in a safe environment, which was important to parents who allowed their children to attend the parties.

Then a newer nightclub asked the brothers to promote three weekly parties, which also were sellouts. Curtis and Corliss eventually decided to open their own club after realizing they were responsible for generating income for club owners. They saved money from their party-promotion contracts, and in October 2000 they took over the lease for the space that would become The Premier. After renovating the club with help from their father’s construction company, the pair opened the club in April 2001 with a grand opening party that drew as many as 1,500 attendees.

The Givens brothers’ staying power is impressive, especially in an industry known for frequent turnover, business failures and fickle customers. But Curtis and Corliss have established themselves as reliable businessmen who treat celebrities like royalty and provide customers with the most sought-after entertainment of the moment. Tight-lipped on future plans, Corliss says, “We always have something up our sleeves.” To be sure, their brand identity runs deeper than a mere reputation for throwing great parties, and the Givens brothers surely stand to further capitalize on what they have created.- P.O.

Whitney Haslam • 26
Political Fundraiser
Granddaughter of Pilot Corp. founder “Big Jim” Haslam, Whitney is the next in the Haslam family bloodline of prolific political fund-raisers. She recently ended a 20-month stint as regional finance coordinator for the Bush-Cheney presidential fund- raising campaign. In that position Haslam handled all fundraising and fundraising events for the entire Southeastern United States. Formerly an assistant comptroller for Marriott Hotels, Whitney is now considering going to work at Pilot Travel Centers, where her father Jimmy is president. Her mother, Dee Bagwell Haslam, is CEO of Rivr Media.

Matthew Hill • 28
Member Tennessee House of Representatives
A firebrand political conservative, Hill championed social issues to recently get elected to the state House of Representatives representing Johnson City and Washington County. Hill is a former radio personality who spent seven years as the host of PowerTalk 870 AM WPWT’s “Good Morning Tri-Cities” radio program. In that role, Hill led the radio war against the income tax in northeast Tennessee. The owner of Hill of Beans coffee shop in Johnson City, Hill, like Brian Kelsey below, will have to wait for the GOP to wrest control of the House to become big-time players on Capitol Hill.

Nicholas Holland • 25
Founder—CentreSource.com
Holland is the founder of one of Nashville’s youngest software companies and a darling of the local tech community. Centre-Source recently rolled out a successful anti-spam and e-mail security offering. With his small but growing nine-person shop, he’s not afraid to compete with well-established software brands, such as Postini. Holland spearheads technology education as president of the IT Academy at Stratford High School and as a volunteer teacher for Junior Achievement. Also active in the Junior Chamber, he has political ambitions. The young entrepreneur has been offered several jobs during the past year but says he plans to stick with his own business—advice he’s quick to offer other young entrepreneurs.

Andrew Holliday • 27
Owner—XL Management.com
Holliday is in the process of building a new industry—managing artists and booking events for half-time shows at sports events across the country. The 18-month-old business is already booking entertainment for 22 out of 30 NBA teams, as well as for college basketball games and minor league baseball events. It is on track to become the Cirque du Soleil of half-time entertainment. Holliday and partner Matt Lacher saw a business opportunity where artists used to solicit business on their own. “Clients like our reliability, we’re standardizing the industry.” Business took off after the successful booking of Beale Street Flippers. Holliday proposed the idea of building an indoor track for youth recreational sports to revitalize the Midsouth Coliseum, is active with annual Memphis in May Triathlon events and is a partner in Start2Finish Event Management.

Mark HuYoung • 28
Vice President
Kraft Search Associates
Some would give a lot to have the Rolodex of Mark HuYoung. At 28, he has recruited top management talent for GE, HealthSouth and a myriad of other companies in the Southeast. A walking networking and recruiting powerhouse, HuYoung joined Paul Frankenberg, president of Kraft Search Associates, to help him grow the company in 2003 after a stint with international technology consultancy MSX International. How did he hone his recruiting skills? “I learned how to listen well and to respond appropriately, and sometimes by just keeping my mouth shut at appropriate times.” He dedicates much of his time to Maryland Farms YMCA and its programs for the needy, and is active at Fellowship Bible Church. The father of three grew up in Illinois in the family of a pediatric cardiologist. He came to Nashville seven years ago and plans to stay. “It’s a great place to raise a family.”

Michael Johnston • 28
Commercial Sales Manager
Jackson Energy Authority
“He’s one of those people who understands what the technology’s potentials is. He’s someone to watch.” Johnston started Genesis Technology Consulting, but left recently to lead the construction of a fiber-optic network for the Jackson Energy Authority. The utility’s project is slated to connect 31,000 homes via a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology, potentially connecting 31,000 homes and businesses in JEA’s service area (the largest project in the United States at the time of its announcement in 2003). Rumored to have political ambitions, he leads youth programs for the local Chamber of Commerce, and is on the alumni board of Union University in Jackson.

Brian Kelsey • 26
Member Tennessee House of Representatives
As smart as he is ambitious, Kelsey could have the makings of a future governor. An attorney with the Memphis law firm of Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Kelsey recently outworked the competition to win the state House seat vacated by Joe Kent. A former legislative intern for Sen. Bill Frist and Rep. Ed Bryant, Kelsey also was a legal intern with the White House Counsel’s office under President Bush. There he focused on national security issues and judicial nominations to the federal bench. A fiscal conservative and tort reform advocate, Kelsey well reflects his Germantown-East Memphis constituency.

Jenny Turner Koltnow • 29
Executive Director—Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation
The philanthropic face of the Memphis Grizzlies basketball franchise, Koltnow worked her way up through the Memphis Grizzlies’ community relations department to recently be named executive director of the Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation. In that role she works closely with Grizzlies ownership to implement the record charitable giving of the team to the Memphis community, over $15 million since the team’s arrival in 2001. Koltnow orchestrates and strengthens all types of partnerships between the team and Memphis organizations benefiting youth, for instance by leveraging the team’s marketing machine or using player appearances to make a lasting impact on the city.

Andrea McDaniel • 27
Deputy White House Liaison
McDaniel is a Tennessean on leave to the nation’s Capitol where she is riding a wave of the Bush presidency as a deputy White House liaison in the U.S. State Department. A graduate of Union University in Jackson who was scheduled to fly to Uzbekistan for mission work on Sept. 11, she instead returned to work at the Brookings Institution where she had worked with columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. McDaniel later got on at the White House recommending personnel to serve on national service boards like the National Endowment for the Arts, occasionally briefing President Bush himself. She is the daughter of state Rep. Steve McDaniel.

Shane Messer • 29
The Incubator Group
www.shanemesser.com
Gained international renown for creating a tongue-in-cheek treasure hunt game that sent scores of geeks on the search for weapons of mass destruction. But the former Marine and serial entrepreneur has much more than fun and games on his mind. Through The Incubator Group, a venture capital company he founded in 2002, he is doing volunteer marketing and development work for Lawyers Without Borders under UN supervision. He’s also interested in developing a not-for-profit group to provide technological training and networking for aspiring young professionals in Tennessee. The free-of-charge training program could become a platform for educating audiences overseas, in economically depressed areas such as Africa. There, Messer also is eyeing a multi-million consulting engagement to start a new mobile phone company. In his short entrepreneurial career to date, Messer has done well for himself in Nashville, as an investor with The Incubator Group in successful liquor venture Blavod Extreme Spirits, and Made to Order Websites, one of the top Web-hosting companies in the state. Prior to going to work for himself, he was CIO at Aladdin Industries in Nashville, at age 24. But he doesn’t let the money and the sudden entrepreneurial success go to his head. “I drive a used car; my expenses haven’t increased since I was in college.” His role model? “If I want to be anyone in my life, it’s U2’s Bono.”-A.S

Charles M. Harrison Patterson • 28
Trustee—Church of God in Christ
Described by Memphis’ Commercial Appeal as “the Harold Ford Jr. of the religious set, a rising star in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) galaxy,” Patterson was recently appointed to the 15-member COGIC Trustee Board representing five million congregants in 50 countries, the youngest ever to hold the office. The great grandson of COGIC founder Charles Harrison Mason, Patterson is believed to have his eye on one day becoming presiding bishop of the global denomination. An associate minister and elder at Pentecostal Temple COGIC in Memphis, Patterson also is a funeral director and owns his own community development company.

Skip Pond • 27
Project Estimator—Hutton Construction Co.
Aprotégé of Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker destined for political office himself someday, Pond is project estimator for Hutton Construction Co. In that position, Pond travels the country handling bids and budgets for the company, which builds Dollar General and Family Dollar stores. He also runs his own small residential construction company, RLP Construction. The former student body president at U.T.-Chattanooga, Pond is GOP chairman of Hamilton County and chaired the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign there. A heavy lifter for then mayoral candidate Corker in 2000, Pond is sure to assume a significant volunteer role in Corker’s planned Senate run.

Brooke Reusch • 28
Membership Manager—Frist Center for the Visual Arts
In a record-breaking feat, Reusch wielded her schmoozing skills to double membership at the four-year-old Frist Center for the Visual Arts to 14,000 in one year. To boost membership among her peer group, she has been a driving force in creating the Nashville art center’s young professional program, the Avant-Garde, which has grown to more than 125 members in its first year. Reusch, a meticulous and creative force, also launched the Frist Center’s first member travel program, and art appreciation trips are already planned for Spain and Italy. A Vanderbilt University graduate, Reusch is a dedicated supporter of her alma mater and co-chaired the university’s homecoming last year.

Jenny Robertson • 28
Assistant Community Relations and Philanthropy—FedEx Global
As second-in-command in community relations and philanthropy at FedEx Global, Robertson administers the company’s worldwide donations (money, shipping services, employee volunteerism). She recently left Archer Malmo public relations firm in Memphis after three promotions in four years. As a former editor of the student newspaper at Ole Miss, Robertson drew national media attention when she called for a ban on rebel flags at football games. She subsequently required a police escort around campus. A likely company CEO some day, Robertson is currently the first female to chair Mpact Memphis, a group aimed at making the city a more desirable place for young professionals.

Emily Rosencranz • 24
Scheduler—Bredesen Administration
The youngest scheduler for a governor in the United States, Rosencranz is the gatekeeper and guardian of one of Gov. Phil Bredesen’s most precious resources—his time. The former deputy director of administration for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, Rosencranz also was hand-picked recently by Bredesen to lead Generation TN, a new organization comprised of young leaders from across the state joined together to network and be exposed to the state’s most influential leaders. Rosencranz knows scores of people across the state through organizing major events for the governor, a network sure to lend itself to a future role, perhaps in political consulting.

Kerr Tigrett • 27
President—Burton Capital
In the early stages of assembling a real estate portfolio in Downtown Memphis, Tigrett now is developing as much as 60,000 square feet of residential condominiums on 1.5 acres on South Front Street. He plans to complete that project by mid-2006. Tigrett also is eyeing property near the landmark Sun Studio. After moving back to Memphis from Los Angeles less than a year ago, Tigrett joined the board of Mpact Memphis, the Phoenix Club and the Memphis Charitable Foundation, founded and chaired by his mother Pat Kerr Tigrett, a Memphis couture fashion designer. To begin these venture projects, Kerr Tigrett has created an investment vehicle called Burton Capital, named after his entrepreneur father, the late John Burton Tigrett.

Gil Uhlhorn • 29
Attorney—Glankler Brown
One of the founders and past chairman of Mpact Memphis, which bills itself as empowering “a new generation of Memphians to make their city a better place.” Uhlhorn helped start the organization in 2001, and it now has more than 1,000 members. Balancing his work as a commercial transactions attorney and his involvement in his family’s real estate company, Uhlhorn Enterprises, he now also serves as chairman-elect for Ptolemy, a crew in Carnival Memphis raising funds for Children’s Charities of Memphis. Perhaps his biggest project is rearing his 10-month-old son Garner (named for his great grandfather Garner Robinson, Davidson County sheriff from 1947 to 1953).