Rose Jackson Flenorl

Rose Jackson Flenorl has more than 30 years of experience in marketing, communications and corporate social responsibility. She has worked in Corporate Communications for FedEx for 17 years and is currently a Manager of the internationally recognized FedEx Global Citizens group.  An active participant in many philanthropic organizations, Rose represents FedEx on the Conference Board Corporate Social Responsibility Council and serves on the board of directors of the National Civil Rights Museum. She is a former board member of the United Way of the Mid-South where she served for four years as Allocations Chair and Leadership Memphis where she served as board chair. A graduate of the University of Mississippi, Rose was the first black female named to the student Hall of Fame (1998) and was chosen by Glamour Magazine as one of the top 10 college women in the United States. Rose continues to make an impact as a leader at her alma mater where she has served as: president of the national Alumni Association, 2008; board chair of the University of Mississippi Foundation, 2015-2016; charter member of the Ole Miss Women’s Council; and in 2016, Rose received the Ole Miss Athletics Nathaniel Northington Trailblazer Award and the Black Student Union Legacy Award. Rose is a member of the Greenwood C.M.E. Church.  She is married to Richard Lee Flenorl.  They have one daughter, Lillie Clarissa.