Mark A. Emkes

Mark Emkes joined CoreCivic's Board of Directors in August 2014, and serves as the independent chairman of the Board. He also serves as a member of CoreCivic’s Compensation Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee and Chairman of the Executive Committee. From 2011 until 2013, Emkes served as the State of Tennessee’s Commissioner of Finance and Administration. For more than five years until his retirement in 2010, Emkes served as chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors of Bridgestone Americas, Inc. and Bridgestone Americas Holdings, Inc., a tire and rubber manufacturing company. He also served as president of Bridgestone Americas, Inc. from January 2009 until his retirement. From 2004 until 2010, Emkes served as a director of Bridgestone Corporation located in Tokyo, Japan. Emkes serves as a director and chairman of the compensation committee of Greif, Inc., a publicly traded industrial packaging products and services company, and is a former director and chair of the audit committee of First Horizon National Corporation, a publicly traded regional financial institution. Emkes has served as president of the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the Advisory Board of Habitat for Humanity, Nashville Chapter. Emkes was the 2011 recipient of the Jennings A. Jones Champion of Free Enterprise Award and was inducted into the Nashville Business Hall of Fame in 2012. Emkes holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from DePauw University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.