Kenya Davenport

Kenya Davenport serves as Southern Bancorp, Inc.’s Chief of Staff and Senior Vice President of Stakeholder Engagement where she advises and provides counsel to the CEO, manages strategic projects, and creates and maintains engagement of investors, funders, shareholders, and other stakeholders.

Prior to joining Southern, Kenya was an attorney who practiced complex civil litigation and family law in Central Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee. She has managed her own law firm and served as Counsel at the law firm Gill Ragon Owen, P.A. in Little Rock. In addition to a significant legal career, Kenya’s career includes a background in finance as a financial advisor and in education as an algebra teacher in Memphis Public Schools.

Kenya is a graduate of Tennessee State University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, and of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Bowen School of Law.