Memphis and Shelby County Film Commissioner Linn Sitler Retiring After 40-Year Career

Linn Sitler, the longtime Memphis and Shelby County Film Commissioner, will step down from her job on December 31, 2026, after 40 years in the position. “Forty years of service is more than a career. It is a legacy, and Linn Sitler has built an extraordinary one,” says Memphis and Shelby County Film and Television Commission Board Chair Gale Jones Carson. “When it comes to promoting Memphis and Shelby County, she doesn’t take a back seat to anybody.” Sitler is the longest serving film commissioner in the world, and the longest consecutively involved member of the Association of Film Commissioners International (the AFCI). Before she took the job as film commissioner in 1987, she was on-air talent and producer for PM Magazine, a syndicated news magazine show. “I returned to Memphis where my family was and where I’d gone to Central High School and [attended] U of M Graduate School and where I had begun my television career,” Sitler says.

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