About CEO
Tomeka R. Hart 
Appointed in January 2007, Tomeka Hart is the president and CEO of the Memphis Urban League, Inc. She is the fifth person and first female to hold this position in the 65-year history of the organization. A native Memphian, Hart earned a B.S. degree in Marketing Education from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. While teaching middle and high school in Cobb County, Georgia, Hart earned her M.B.A. degree from Kennesaw State University.
Hart returned to Memphis to attend the University of Memphis School of Law, earning her J.D. degree in 2002. She maintained a labor and employment law practice with Ford & Harrison, LLP prior to joining the Memphis Urban League.
In 2004 Hart was elected to the Board of Commissioners of the Memphis City Schools. She serves as the 2008 Board President. She also chairs the Personnel Committee and co-chairs the Policy and Legal Representation Committee.
An avid community servant, Hart holds positions on several other boards, including the Memphis Riverfront Development Corporation, New Pathways Community Development Corporation, the Leadership Academy, the University of Memphis Law School Alumni Association, and the Overton Park Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where she heads the Communications Department. She is a former board member of the Southside Boys & Girls Club of Memphis, Association of Women Attorneys, and the Memphis Bar Association. Additionally, Hart serves as a member of the Public Buildings and Public Policies Committee of Mayor A.C. Wharton’s newly formed Sustainable Shelby: A Future of Choice, Not Chance program, and she serves as a mentor through the Memphis City Schools’ Connect program.
Hart has been recognized for her professional and community involvement. The Memphis Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. selected Hart for its 2008 Jesse H. Turner Community Service Award. Hart is a Memphis Black Business Directory 2008 Top 40 Black Professionals Under 40 honoree,a 2005 Memphis Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 honoree, the recipient of the Mpact Memphis 2006 Mpact Maker Award for Political Achievement, and she was a two time recipient of the University of Memphis School of Law Dean’s Distinguished Service Award. Hart is a graduate of Leadership Memphis, the Leadership Academy Master’s Program, and an alumnus of the inaugural class of the Nexus Leadership Program.