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Leadership matters: Police chief shoots from heart

CJ Davis relishes her life calling. ‘It’s not about you, it’s about what you can do for other people.’


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 12:30 p.m. March 23, 2022
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Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis is the first speaker for St. Leo University’s Mission-Driven Leaders: Conversations on Purpose serie
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis is the first speaker for St. Leo University’s Mission-Driven Leaders: Conversations on Purpose serie
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Cerelyn “CJ” Davis didn’t take to cartoons or more traditional kids TV shows while growing up, one of six kids in a military family. Instead, she dove into procedural police shows.

“Early on my mother thought something was wrong with me because Saturday mornings I was always watching cop shows,” Davis says. “For me it was Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice. I was infatuated with criminal justice. I didn’t know that level of interest in those types of shows would become part of who I am — literally.”

 


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