Damon Hininger

Damon Hininger is President and Chief Executive Officer of CoreCivic, a position he has held since August 2009. He was previously appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer in July 2008. Hininger served as Senior Vice President of Federal and Local Customer Relations beginning in September 2007 after serving as Vice President of Federal and Local Customer Relations since June 2002. Hininger previously served CoreCivic 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 Central Arizona Detention Center's and CoreCivic's companywide Employee of the Year. He joined the corporate office in 1995, serving as Manager, Facility Start Up, for three years.

Hininger currently serves on the boards of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, Nashville Public Education Foundation, Belmont University, Men of Valor, and Middle Tennessee Council Boy Scouts of America. He also serves on the Kansas State Foundation Board of Directors and the Board of Advisors for the Massey School of Business at Belmont University. In 2011, Forbes named Hininger as one of the "Top 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under." Hininger earned a bachelor's degree from Kansas State University and a Master of Business Administration from the Jack Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont University. He was honored in 2010 as the Massey Graduate School Alumni of the Year.