Terri L. Strong

My name is Rev. Dr. Terri L. Strong, and I am a 65-year-old lifelong native Memphian. I am the youngest of 10 children. I am a mother of 2 sons, Andre and Cameron. I graduated from Memphis State University in 1989 with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, from Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce Ohio with a Master’s of Divinity in 2012 and from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA with a Doctor of Ministryin 2018. I am a 25-year retired veteran of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office where I served as an officer and supervisor in the Jail Division, as a Detective in the Internal Affairs Office and as an Instructor for the Training Academy. I am the founder of a non-profit organization called Basic Intervention for New Direction, which is a social educational program for youth and parents. I am a past national board member of the Neighborhoods, USA Organization or “NUSA” which is a national grass roots organization established to help build better communities. I am an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal denomination.