There are 5 article(s) tagged Mike Cody:

• July 2025

  • Calkins: Paul Sax is about to stop teaching tennis. But that’s not all we can learn.

    After 42 years of teaching tennis, Paul Sax is retiring. But he still has lessons to teach us about a well-led life.

    By Geoff Calkins July 21, 2025

• January 2023

  • Kevin Ritz: Eagle Scout, rock band lead singer and now United States Attorney

    After 17 years as an assistant U.S. Attorney here, Memphis native Kevin Ritz now has the top job. He is more than prepared, but it is also a different challenge: “It’s hard to be in this chair. But you put the facts and the law together, and you do the right thing.” 

    By Don Wade January 02, 2023

• July 2020

  • Sanford: At a meeting in Memphis, John Lewis made his mission clear

    When he gave his moving address at the Memphis library to supporters – as well as some covert observers – the 27-year-old John Lewis was already a veteran in the fight for voting rights, equal accommodations and equal justice.

    By Otis Sanford July 22, 2020

• December 2019

  • Charlie Newman’s quiet influence profoundly changed Memphis

    The Memphis Bar Association gave its Judge Jerome Turner Lawyer's Lawyer Award to Charlie Newman, the conservationist-minded lawyer at Burch, Porter & Johnson whose work has changed the city's landscape. 

    By Jane Roberts December 12, 2019

• April 2019

  • Second Memphis Cares reflects on Memphis of 1968 and change

    The interfaith gathering came 51 years to the day of the original gathering. Rev. James Lawson, who spoke at the original Memphis Cares, said Sunday Memphis can be "a different kind of city a generation from now."

    By Bill Dries April 08, 2019