Melinda Meador is an attorney with a passion for history. The Gleason, Tennessee native has served as felony prosecutor for the Obion County office of the 27th Judicial District Attorney; as a judicial clerk, assistant district attorney and criminal defense lawyer on the Texas Court of Appeals; and in several leadership positions at the FDIC’s headquarters Washington D.C. Today she is in private practice with the firm of Lowe, Yeager & Brown PLLC.

Meador’s family was among the original settlers of Weakley County, and she lives on a farm that has been in her family for 195 years. In this episode, Meador provides details from “Strange Fruit: The Forgotten Lynchings of Northwest Tennessee and Southwestern Kentucky, 1869-1931,” the thesis for her 2021 master’s in American history from Murray State University.

This episode is sponsored by Jerry Ward Autoplex.

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