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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc., a Tennessee corporation held
its 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April 18,
2023. At the. | April 21, 2023
TSU President Glenda Baskin Glover was among the speakers, as was James Ammons, former president of FAMU and North Carolina Central University, who is now chancellor at Southern University at New Orleans.
“FAMU educated me, but Dr. Humphries prepared me for my life’s work,” said Ammons, who served as provost under Humphries.
FAMU President Larry Robinson, a nuclear chemist by training who was recruited to FAMU more than two decades ago by Humphries, described the occasion as a “celebration of life for this great American, an administrator who was eminently brilliant, a visionary, whose brilliance was on constant display.”
CoreCivic’s directors have elected the president of Tennessee State University to join them on the board of the prison management company.
Glenda Baskin Glover will join the CoreCivic board March 1, becoming the company’s 12th director and the fourth woman director. She has led TSU since the beginning of 2013, after serving as dean of its Jackson State University s college of business. Before that, Glover chaired the accounting department at Howard University.
“Creating life-changing educational opportunities for individuals in need is one of CoreCivic s most meaningful missions, and it is certainly a lifelong calling of Dr. Glover’s,” CoreCivic President and CEO Damon Hininger said in a statement that praised Glover for her extraordinary combination of expertise in business, education and community leadership.”