Jennie Robbins is a different kind of leader for Church Health
Jennie Robbins, Chief Executive Officer at Church Health on Monday, June 16, 2025. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
From the outside, Jennie Robbins may have seemed an unusual choice to succeed physician and pastor Dr. Scott Morris as CEO of Church Health, the nation’s largest faith-based, privately funded health clinic.
A finance expert, Robbins’ resume includes commercial lending roles with Bancorp South, Bank of America and Regions Bank.
“I am not a doctor or a minister, and I don’t pretend to be,” she said. “I’m a champion for this cause, and as far as the philosophy of looking out for this community, that hasn’t changed.”
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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