Tannera George Gibson was appointed Chief Legal Officer / City Attorney for the City of Memphis in January 2024, after representing the City of Memphis as outside counsel since 2016. As the Chief Legal Officer, she provides legal advice and counsel to the Mayor, division directors, and city officials on a broad range of legal matters, identifies areas of risk, and provides strategy and legal problem-solving. Gibson manages over 50 Legal Division employees, including attorneys and employees of the claims, permits, risk management, and metro alarm departments.  

Gibson graduated from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2008 and is currently a non-equity member of the law firm Burch, Porter & Johnson, PLLC, having become an equity member of the firm in 2017—the first Black woman to do so. Gibson was elected to the Board of Directors of the Memphis Bar Association in 2017 and became the Memphis Bar Association’s first Black woman President in 2022. Gibson is a Memphis Bar Foundation Fellow, an American Bar Foundation Fellow, a member of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Litigation Section Executive Council, and a member of the Standing Local Rules Committee for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee