Deidre Malone
President
Deidre Malone is the 15th woman to hold the position of National Women’s Political Caucus president. She previously served as NWPC 1st vice president and vice president of Communications. Malone is a former elected official in Tennessee. She was elected to the Shelby County Commission in 2002, where she served as chair of the budget, community services, and housing and economic development committees and vice chair of the education committee. In September 2008, Malone made history, becoming the first African American woman to chair the Shelby County Commission and the first female to chair the budget committee. Malone ran for mayor of Shelby County and is the first woman to win a major party nomination for that position.
Malone is president/CEO of The Carter Malone Group LLC (CMG) a public relations, marketing, advertising and government relations firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, with an office in Jackson, Mississippi. Before opening the agency in May 2003, Malone served as vice president of Marketing Development for ALSAC/St. Jude, the fundraising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She also held the position of St. Jude Public Relations director. Malone is a former broadcast journalist, who served as a news producer for WMC-TV Action News 5.
Twice she served as president of the NWPC Tennessee Chapter. She is also former vice president of the Shelby County Democratic Party, immediate past president of the NAACP Memphis Branch, a founding member of the Philanthropic Black Women of Memphis, and a trustee at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church.
Malone is a 1999 graduate of Leadership Memphis and in 2001 served as Leadership Memphis Alumni Association president. She is a member of Beta Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She serves as vice president of the New Tri-State Defender ownership group and is also a partner in The Carter Malone Network. Malone is a graduate of Jackson State University (Mississippi) with a degree in mass communications and a minor in marketing. She and her husband, Dr. Patrick Malone, have two sons, Patrick II and Brian. She is the proud grandmother of Patrick III, Bailee Christian, and Brielle.
