MEMPHIS, TN — Harold Lewis, Jr. is a mortgage industry expert with vast experience in architect building and operating sophisticated control systems in an intensely regulated industry, and managing and controlling operations infrastructure, including on/off shore and in and out sourced business models. He has deep operational P&L performance, efficiency, technology and systems expertise. As president and chief operating officer at Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc., he led rapid growth while successfully managing risk and profitability. Growing the Servicing platform from $30B to $400B and the Origination portfolio from $1.8B to $25B in less than 2 years, he enhanced loan performance…
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The Trump Administration doubled down on Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery’s anti-Affordable Care Act lawsuit, announcing their refusal to defend the law of the land and instead attacking its popular provisions. This latest attack on health care will take Tennessee back to a time when insurance companies had all the power over people’s health care and millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions were denied coverage outright. “Attorney General Slatery’s politically inspired effort to get rid of the Affordable Care Act would allow insurance companies to discriminate against 2.7 million Tennesseans with pre-existing conditions, charge Tennessee women more for coverage, impose an age…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Kids bounced inside the inflatable playhouse and a couple of boys threw a football in the grass at Bi-Centennial Mall Saturday afternoon. High school senior Bella Dotson played the Haitian Fight Song on her stand-up bass. A train trolley with a blue engine painted like the Little Engine That Could took people around the mall. The two-day event was sponsored by the Jefferson Street United Merchants Partnership, J.U.M.P. HCA Tristar Health, the Fifth Third Bank, Advance Financial, Nashville General Hospital, Kroger, AT&T, and Hall Strategies gave financial support. Food vendors and other merchants peddled…
NASHVILLE, TN — Every birthday deserves a day of festivity; but when it is the one hundredth birthday, it merits a year-long celebration. Rejoicing because of its one hundred years, as a thriving congregation, is exactly what the Schrader Lane Church of Christ is doing this year. The flock began in May, 1918 in a storefront building at 1400 Jefferson Street. Growth of the church led to its move to 2521 Jefferson Street in June, 1927. There, in a beautiful brick building, built by the church’s members, the congregation flourished. Its building became a symbol of stability in the Nashville…
From Staff Reports NASHVILLE, TN — The 18th Annual Jefferson Street Jazz & Blues Festival is at two venues this weekend to mix-up Music City at SoBro and on the Bicentennial Capitol Mall. The Jefferson Street United Merchants Partnership (J.U.M.P.) has announced its: • Friday, June 15, “Bridging the Gap Mixer: A SoBro Block Party” is at 5th and Demonbreun between the Music City Center and the Omni/Country Music Hall of Fame complex featuring Jefferson Jazz & Blues Festival alums William Davenport and Wendell “Bizz” Bigsby-Church & Everyday People with a special guest; celebrity DJ Kid Capri. • Saturday, June…
BIRMINGHAM, AL — Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that it has awarded its annual diversity scholarship to Adrielle L. Conner as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. The Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Diversity Scholarship promotes the education of well-qualified law students who reflect the diversity of the legal marketplace and who are traditionally underrepresented in the legal profession. Each scholarship includes a summer clerkship in one of the firm’s offices. Ms. Conner is a rising second-year law student at Vanderbilt University. While in law school, Ms. Conner…
NASHVILLE, TN (TSU News Service) — Houston, TX will serve as the backdrop for a special performance by Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands in July. Affectionately known as the AOB, the band will be front and center during the upcoming national conference for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Members are preparing for a big show, which is extremely important as the natives believe, “everything is bigger in Texas.” “The Aristocrat of Bands is honored to be invited and have the opportunity to perform for a prestigious audience such as Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated,” said TSU Band Director Dr.…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — The Fair Board unanimously approved a plan Tuesday that will remake the Fairgrounds. It includes new Exposition buildings, entertainment venues, mixed income residences, office space, a hotel, retail shops., and a 27,500- seat soccer stadium. The plan “addresses” all of the current uses of the Fairgrounds like the Speedway, State Fair, and Flea Market. Or so they say. “The process was very intense but by bringing everybody together, not only the public but also the various design teams, that are working on different components, we were able get a consensus rather quickly and I think…
MURFREESBORO, TN— MTSU public history graduate students can spend the summer looking back on a year full of awards resulting from their hard work while the public spends the summer enjoying and learning from their diligent scholarship. “Education and Empowerment: African-American Schools in Rutherford County,” an interactive exhibit installed at Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center in spring 2017, won top honors for “Student Work in Museums” at the Southeastern Museums Conference in New Orleans. Second-year master’s candidate Typhanie Schafer of Audubon, Minnesota, and second-year doctoral student Lindsey Fisher of Newcastle, Pennsylvania, accepted the award for MTSU. The students revamped…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Metro schools and Metropolitan Development and Housing Administration (MDHA) have been talking about making a land swap. Nashville School of the Arts on Foster Avenue is located in a big rambling complex that includes a court that adjudicates asset forfeitures and other administrative offices. Director of Schools Dr. Shawn Joseph wants to build a new campus on Hermitage Avenue for the School of the Arts. MDHA owns a parcel of land that fits the bill. There is another piece of adjacent property Metro Schools needs to buy in order to build a new arts…