Deidre Malone is the President/CEO of The Carter Malone Group, LLC (CMG), a public relations, marketing, advertising and government relations firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee and an office in Jackson, Ms. Before opening the agency in May 2003, Malone served as Vice President of Marketing Development for ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.  She also held the position of Director of Public Relations for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Malone is a former broadcast journalist. She served as a news producer for WMC-TV Action News 5.

Malone served as a member of the Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) Board and the Memphis and Shelby County Port Authority Board. She is a member of the Memphis Regional Chamber, Black Business Association, Mid-South Minority Business Continuum, and Public Relations Society of America. Malone is a founding member of the Tennessee Public Relations Alliance with McNeely Pigott and Fox in Nashville, Moxley Carmichael Public Relations in Knoxville, Q Strategies in Chattanooga and Hispanic Marketing in Nashville.

Malone made history becoming the first African American woman to chair the Shelby County Commission and the first female to chair the budget committee.  Malone ran for Mayor of Shelby County and is the first woman to win a major party nomination for that position.

She is a 1999 graduate of Leadership Memphis and in 2001 served as Leadership Memphis Alumni Association President and a member of Beta Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She serves as Vice President of the Best Media Properties, Inc. Board of Directors, the ownership group for the New Tri-State Defender and is also a partner in M1TV Network.

A graduate of Jackson State University, she received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communications and a minor in Marketing. Deidre and her husband, Dr. Patrick Malone, have two sons, Patrick II and Brian. She is the proud grandmother of Patrick III “Trey” and Bailee Christian.