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John D. FergusonChairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
John Ferguson began serving as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in July 2008, after having served as President and CEO of Corrections Corporation of America since August 2000. He joined the company following a 33-year business career that includes extensive experience in finance, entrepreneurial ventures, corporate turnarounds and government experiece. Most recently he served as the Commissioner of Finance and Administration for the state of Tennessee for four years. Just four years after graduating from Mississippi State University with a bachelor's degree in accounting, he co-founded Econocom in 1971, a computer sales and leasing company, which he operated for 10 years. In 1973, Mr. Ferguson helped found a bank, and assissted in the organization of the board of directors and served as a director of the bank. In 1982, he founded a merger and acquistions firm and served as CEO until 1993. He continued to serve on the board of the bank, serving as Chairman and CEO from 1990 until 1995. 
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Damon HiningerPresident and Chief Operating Officer
Damon Hininger was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer in July 2008. Damon served as Senior Vice President of Federal and Local Customer Relations since September 2007, after having served as Vice President of Federal and Local Customer Relations since June 2002. Hininger previously served CCA as Vice President, Business Analysis since December 2000.He has also served the company as Director, Strategic Planning and Director Proposal Development. Hininger joined the company in 1992 as a correctional officer at Leavenworth Detention Center in Leavenworth, Kansas, and was promoted to Training Manager at Central Arizona Detention Center in 1994. That same year, Hininger was also selected as both Central Arizona Detention Center's and CCA's company-wide Employee of the Year. He joined the corporate office in 1995, serving as Manager, Facility Start Up for three years. Hininger earned a B.S. from Kansas State University and an M.B.A. from the Jack Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University in Nashville.
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Tony GrandeExecutive Vice President and Chief Development Officer
Tony Grande assumed the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer in July 2008, after having served as Senior Vice President of State Customer Relations since September 2007. Grande joined CCA in 2003, in the newly-created role of Vice President of State Customer Relations. In his capacity, Grande manages all existing state contracts, and he leads the company's national efforts to forge new partnerships with state Departments of Corrections. CCA currently serves about half of all states. Tony Grande previously served as Tennessee's Commissioner of Economic and Community Development (ECD). In that role, he led the recruitment and expansion of business to the State, managing an $85 million budget and 200 employees. Having worked in Tennessee government since 1998, Grande served as Assistant Commissioner and later as Deputy Commissioner of ECD. He previously led a publishing and database marketing company and served as a political speechwriter in Washington, DC. Tony Grande earned his Masters of Education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and his Bachelor of Arts from The American University in Washington, D.C.
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Todd MullengerExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Todd Mullenger was named CCA's Chief Financial Officer in March 2007. Mullenger joined CCA as Vice President, Finance in September 1998 and later served as Treasurer from February 2001 to March 2007. Previously, Mullenger served as Vice President, Finance at Service Merchandise. He also spent several years at Arthur Anderson LLP where his experience included the private corrections industry. Mr. Mullenger earned a bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Iowa in Iowa City and an M.B.A. from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
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G.A. Puryear IVExecutive Vice President & General Counsel
G.A. Puryear was named General Counsel of CCA in January 2001. Most recently, Puryear served as Legislative Director and Counsel for U.S. Senator Bill Frist, where he worked on legislation and other policy matters. During the fall of 2000, Puryear also served as a debate advisor to Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Puryear also worked as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs' special investigation of campaign finance abuses during the 1996 elections, which was chaired by Senator Fred Thompson. Prior to his career on Capital Hill, Puryear worked for Farris, Warfield & Kanaday (now Stites and Harbison), a law firm in Nashville. Puryear was also a law clerk for the Honorable Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit in Jackson, Miss. Puryear earned a bachelor's with highest honors in political science from Emory University in 1990 and a J.D., with honors, from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1993.
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William K. RusakExecutive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Bill Rusak was named CCA's Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer in July 2006. With nearly 30 years of experience in human resources, labor issues, employee relations, and corporate strategy and restructurings, Rusak has served as a consultant to CCA's Human Resources department for the past three months. Having held numerous board positions internationally over the past 20 years, Rusak has served in a variety of business and human resources roles in his career, including the president of two companies. For the past five years in Nashville, he has held the position of Vice President, Human Resources for the American headquarters of the global company BBA Fiberweb, based out of London, which is one of the world's largest organizations in the nonwovens business. From 1998-2000, he was President of Country Business Services in New York, which provides brokerage, financial and consulting services to buyers and sellers of small and medium-sized businesses. In Montreal for nine years, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of a major Canadian textile manufacturer, Dominion Textile. Earlier in his career, Rusak also worked for Racemark International in New York and Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron. Rusak earned a bachelor of law degree from La Salle University, and earned specialized training in business studies from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and the executive management program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Richard P. SeiterExecutive Vice President & Chief Corrections Officer
Richard P. Seiter joined CCA as Executive Vice President and Chief Corrections Officer in January 2005. Mr. Seiter was Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction from 1983 to 1988. In that cabinet-level position, he oversaw the operations of 18 prison facilities, a staff of 8,000, and an annual budget of approximately $400 million. Most recently, Seiter served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. He has authored two textbooks on corrections, Corrections: An Introduction (2005) and Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice (2002).
Seiter has served in a variety of roles with the Federal Bureau of Prisons including the Assistant Director for Industries, Education and Training (1989-1993), during which time he served as Chief Operating Officer of Federal Prisons Industries, a government corporation that sells goods manufactured by inmates. He also served as Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Greenville, Illinois (1993-1999) and Warden, Federal Prison Camp, Allenwood, Pennsylvania (1981-1982). Seiter holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Ohio State University and earned his M.P.A. and Ph.D. in Public Administration from Ohio State.
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