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Joey was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Due to his sports-loving family and many athletic cousins, he naturally played many different sports in his youth – mainly baseball, football, basketball, track & field and tennis. His grandparents had also founded a family-owned day-care, the most successful independent day-care in Memphis, called Sports/Care. It was there that Joey grew up with his 16 cousins, learning how to play sports and the benefits of hard work. It was also there that he got his first job, as a summer day-care counselor for kids when he was 15. Having grown up around his aunts and uncles who ran the day-care, Joey learned the ways of working with and educating children. Additionally, Joey’s mother Gwen was a science teacher in public high schools for 40 years, and watching her growing up was very beneficial to his outlook on education, work and life.
After high school, Joey attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville as a student athlete. By then, he knew he couldn’t get a scholarship in his favorite sport, football, so he found another option. Joey’s sister Kerri was the captain of their high school cheerleading team and she taught him how to be a cheerleader. With those skills, he received a full scholarship to UT to be a cheerleader even before the start of his freshman year. At UT, he went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in Communication.
During college and for a few years after graduation, Joey earned extra money by teaching kids how to be cheerleaders at a training gym in Knoxville. His experience working at his family’s day-care was very helpful in this endeavor. After four years of coaching several competitive all-star teams, and winning multiple national championships with them, he decided to pursue other challenges. That led him to attend graduate school back home at the University of Memphis, where he enrolled at the Fogelman College of Business & Economics.
Joey went to graduate classes part-time in the evening for three years to earn his MBA. During that time, he landed a job at the most prestigious full-service advertising agency in the Mid-South, archer > malmo – now known simply as Archer. It was there he cut his teeth on public relations and the marketing world at large.
Following grad school, Joey worked as a marketing professional for a few notable corporations, including a Boeing subsidiary named Inventory Locator Service, as well as at the FedEx world headquarters, and for Varsity Brands Inc. – the largest company in the world for cheerleading, dance and gymnastics. All of these stops along the way would give him invaluable life and business experience.
During the pandemic in 2020, Joey moved to North Little Rock, AR, to be closer to his mother and his ailing step-father, and he has lived in North Little Rock ever since. Joey started working in marketing with WH Law in early 2023 and has since grown to love the firm. The innovative mindset and the friendly culture at WH Law suit him well.
In his spare time, Joey loves to play pickleball. He has played in and won some tournaments around Arkansas and his native Tennessee. He also enjoys producing pickleball tournaments to help the community grow and thrive. When he’s not working or playing pickleball, you can find Joey taking his mom to the movies or taking his mini-goldendoodle Bella to the park.
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