[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 79 (Friday, May 7, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E485-E486]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING ARNOLD PERL

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                            HON. STEVE COHEN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 7, 2021

  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I rise to pay my respects to a great civic 
leader of Memphis, Arnold E. Perl, who passed on Tuesday. A labor and 
employment lawyer for more than 40 years, Mr. Perl served on the 
Memphis and Shelby County Airport Authority, including 16 years as its 
chairman, where he advocated the idea of an aerotropolis linking the 
airport to the commerce of our city. He was also a past General Counsel 
of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry as well as Secretary 
and General Counsel of the Greater Memphis Regional Chamber. Mr. Perl 
served as the Chairman of the New Arena Public Building Authority, 
which built the $250 million FedEx Forum. Very active in the Jewish 
community, he served as the 45th President of Temple Israel from 2006 
to 2008. Mr. Perl also served on the Board of Trustees of the 
University of Tennessee from 1996 to 2002 and was supportive of the 
Hope Scholarship funded by the state lottery I worked to establish as a 
state senator. For his efforts founding the Japan-Tennessee Society and 
his contributions to Japanese-American relations, he was honored in 
2007 with membership in the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of 
Japan. In 2006,

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he published Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and 
Simplicity to Get Results with FedEx's Tom Schmitt about best practices 
in business leadership. Mr. Perl founded the law firm Young and Perl, 
was a partner in the law firm Ford and Harrison, and he later became a 
member of the law firm Glankler Brown. Memphis has lost a fine leader. 
I extend my condolences to his wife Mary Lynn, his daughters Stephanie 
Perl Marks and Laurie Perl Meskin and their husbands, his extended 
family and his many friends.

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