Stacia Hylton

Stacia Hylton joined CoreCivic's Board of Directors in August 2016, and is a member of CoreCivic's Nominating and Governance Committee and Chair of Special Litigation Committee. Hylton also serves as a member of CoreCivic's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Since 2016, Hylton has served as a principal for LS Advisory, a New Jersey-based business solutions advisory consultancy. In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Hylton to serve as Director of the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), a federal agency with more than 5,600 employees responsible for federal judiciary security, fugitive operations, asset forfeitures, prisoner operations, transportation and witness security, and served as director of the USMS until her retirement in 2015. She served as the U.S. Attorney General’s Federal Detention Trustee in the U.S. Department of Justice from 2004 to 2010. From 1980 to 2004, Hylton served in progressively senior leadership positions within the USMS. She serves as a director and member of the audit committee of Spok Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded provider of communications solutions. She also serves on the Board of Directors at LexisNexis Special Services Inc., a software solutions company for government agencies. Hylton is a fellow for the National Academy for Public Administration and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Law Enforcement Exploring. She has served on the Executive Committee for the International Chiefs of Police and the Accreditation and Policy Committees for the National Sheriffs Association. Hylton holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University.