Charles Cox, M.D. is retired from his ENT practice in Jackson, Tenn. where he has volunteered ENT surgical care to the Tennessee Crippled Children Services for years. He was a board member of West Tennessee Speech and Hearing Center and helped create the West Tennessee School for the Deaf.

Charles Cox, M.D.

He’s a graduate of the University of Tennessee Knoxville and the UT College of Medicine in Memphis.

He served on the UT College of Medicine Alumni Advisory Board and is President, Tennessee Academy of Otolaryngology and Physicians Healthcare Alliance Group. He is a founding member of the Tennessee Board of Audiology and Speech Pathology.

Named in 1977 as one of the Best Doctors in America, Dr. Cox was chosen for the 2014 Ralph A. Johnson Humanitarian of the Year award.

Dr. Cox, who is a Union City native, has been married for 55 years to Betsy Buckley Cox of Martin, Tennessee. They have four sons and eight grandchildren.

Historian and humanitarian, he is active in historic preservation of Civil War sites in Tennessee.