Former Memphis woman named Trump’s ‘pardon czar’
In this April 1, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump, left, listens as former prisoner Alice Marie Johnson, right, speaks at the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The great-grandmother spent 21 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense before Trump commuted her sentence in 2018. (Susan Walsh/AP File)
Former Memphian Alice Marie Johnson, who spent 21 years in prison for drug trafficking before being released in 2018, has been named the new presidential administration’s “pardon czar.”
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Alice Marie Johnson criminal justice pardons drug traffickingJody Callahan
Jody Callahan graduated with degrees in journalism and economics from what is now known as the University of Memphis. He has covered news in Memphis for more than 25 years.
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