Jozelle booker

President and CEO, Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum

Described as passionate, motivated, results-oriented and a strategic thinker, Jozelle is an experienced minority and women-owned business economic development, supplier diversity and procurement professional. She’s a hands-on leader with demonstrated ability to champion change across organizational teams.

Jozelle Luster Booker presently serves as the President and CEO of The Mid-South Minority Business Council (MMBC) Continuum and its sister organization the Mid-South Minority Council TADP (MMC-TADP), the training arm of the operation for the Tennessee MBDA Business Center. As the leader of both entities, she supports the growth and development of minority and women-owned businesses through advocacy, business consulting, capacity building, public and private contact connections and access to capital. She joined the organization in 2017 after a 31-year career with Memphis Light, Gas and Water, the nation’s largest three-service public utility company, where she worked in a number of areas including supplier diversity and procurement. During her career, she designed and managed an award-winning supplier diversity program. Upon her retirement, 20 years after the inception of the program, the utility would spend half a billion dollars with minority, women and locally-owned small businesses. It ultimately became the model program across West Tennessee.

Jozelle was recently honored as one of the 2020 Memphis City Guides’ Who’s Who – Movers, Shakers and Newsmakers, Memphis Magazine’s 2022 Power Players, Memphis Light, Gas and Water's 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for Supplier Diversity, the City of Memphis Office of Business Diversity and Compliance's 2022 Leaders and Legends Award, Memphis Grizzlies' 2023 HBCU Endowment Award presented by Pinnacle Bank, Memphis Business Journal's 2023, 2024 and 2025 Power 100 and was recognized as one Memphis' Most Powerful People (2023). She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from “thee” Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi and an Executive MBA from the University of Memphis. Jozelle is a lifetime member of the alumni associations of both institutions. Committed to improving the human condition of others by lending time, talent and resources to organizations with that shared mission, she is an active member of the Memphis (TN) Chapter of The Links Incorporated, the Memphis Chapter of the Jackson State University National Alumni Association, Memphis Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the St. Monica Sodality at St. Augustine Catholic Church where she also serves as a lector.

She is a former member of the Downtown Rotary Club where she served as secretary, chair of the District 8200 Youth Program and was named a Paul Harris Fellow. Presently, she serves on the board of directors for the Greater Memphis Chamber and Catholic Charities of West Tennessee. Jozelle is married to Wayne P. Booker and they have three daughters.