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Margaret Cupples

by Margaret Cahoon
Photo by Renee Reedy
May 24, 2006

When Natchez native Margaret Cupples graduated from law school at Washington and Lee in 1993, she was offered a year-long position in Jackson with Judge Rhesa Barksdale. After that, she worked at the…
 
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Tonyatta Hairston

by Brian Johnson
Photo by Renee Reedy
May 17, 2006

"The great thing is that I get to help people medically, but then I take them out of that examination room and have the opportunity to glamorize them, to help them find a…
 
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Ruth Davis

by Lea Thomas
Photo by Charles A. Smith
May 10, 2006

Sitting on a park bench among automobiles, passersby and wasps buzzing about spring in full force, Ruth Davis fearlessly and passionately pours out her thoughts on life, past, present and…
 
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Pat Chambliss

by Sophia Halkias
Photo courtesy of Pat Chambliss
May 3, 2006

Pat Chambliss is the perfect spokeswoman for Dress for Success, the international nonprofit organization whose Jackson chapter she helped to found.

Chambliss, 48, who is wearing a…
 
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Ben Barlow

by Margaret Cahoon
Photo by William Patrick Butler
April 26, 2006

After spending his first years out of college as a chef on a cattle ranch in Wyoming and a salesman in Colorado, Ben Barlow came back to Mississippi to try his hand…
 
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Bob Kochtitzky

by Adam Lynch
Photo by William Patrick Butler
April 19, 2006

Bob Kochtitzky, director of Mississippi 2020, has the gift of foresight. He can pick out warning signs years before the rest of society catches on, and he figured out ages ago that…
 
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Eddie Brown, Jr.

by Natalie A. Collier
Photo by William Patrick Butler
April 12, 2006

Chivalry is not dead, and some men still believe that real men can be gentlemen. Meet Eddie Brown Jr.

 
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Ebony Gee

by Lea Thomas and Natalie Collier
Photo by William Patrick Butler
April 5, 2006

"There's nothing to do in Jackson." This is one of the most common complaints and misconceptions echoed all-around our bold new city, and Ebony Gee, 23, grows more determined…
 
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Katy Smith

by Brian Johnson
Photo by Brian Johnson
March 29, 2006

Katy Smith blinks in the afternoon sunlight of a bright spring day and says, "I love downtown Jackson. I think it's really beautiful, and people don't appreciate it."
 
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Oleta Fitzgerald

by Sophia Halkias
Photo by Jason Jarin
March 22, 2006

Oleta Fitzgerald, 58, is a tiny woman with a big office. Perfectly coiffed in a tweed business suit, she arises from her desk when I arrive and gracefully extends her hand to meet…
 
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