Contact List

I just installed Lion. A bit behind, I know, but my Mac Pro is too old for Mountain Lion so I'm done upgrading the OS. Here's my question. I want a particular contact to appear first in the contact list. Before Lion, I put an asterisk before his name in my address book and it appeared at the top of the contact list in mail. It no longer works. Can anyone tell me if there's a way to do this? Thanks