Rose Jackson Flenorl

Rose Jackson Flenorl is manager of global community relations and philanthropy for FedEx, Memphis, Tenn., where she coordinates the community relations efforts for the company. Previously, she held positions at International Paper in Memphis, as manager of community relations and as managers of communications.

An active participant in the community, Flenorl is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Corporate Community Relations at Boston College. She serves on several other boards, including the United Way of the Mid-South, Memphis Zoological Society, Hutchinson School, Leadership Memphis and the Memphis Advisory Board of Bank of America. She is a member of the Memphis and Shelby County Sports Authority, Beta Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, River City Chapter of the Links Inc., and a graduate of Tennessee Leadership and Leadership Mississippi. She also is a life subscribing member of the NAACP.

Flenorl was awarded the Memphis Black Business Directory's Simply the Best Award as premier civic supporter, Girl's Inc. She Knows Where She's Going Award, the Mertie Buckman Mentor Award from the Women's Foundation, and the United Way of the Mid-South's Heart of the United Way Volunteer Award. She also received an Outstanding Service Award from Associated Catholic Charities, Young Executive of the Year from Big Brothers and Sisters, the Alpha Kappa Sorority South Eastern Region Humanitarian Award, Empowerment Award for the Sisterhood Summit, and Education Alumna of the Year from The University of Mississippi. She is a recipient of the 2000 Memphis Woman Magazine's Fifty Women Who Make a Difference Award and the National Society of Fund-raising Executives' 1998 Crystal Award for Philanthropy, as well as honored at the 1998 Goodwill Homes International Friends Gala 1998 honoree.

A graduate of The University of Mississippi, Flenorl was the first African-American female named to the student Hall of Fame and was recently inducted into the Ole Miss Alumni Hall of Fame.