Agenia Clark

Dr. Agenia Clark was announced as the 18th President for Fisk University in October 2023. She joins the University after years of experience in higher education, serving on the boards of the Tennessee Board of Regents, Simmons University and Belmont University, and is an emerita on the Advisory Board of the University of Tennessee’s Haslam School of Business.

Dr. Clark was recently honored as the 2021 “Nashvillian of the Year,” and is a member of Women Corporate Directors (“WCD”), where she is the co-chair of the Tennessee chapter. She is also a member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF), Nashville’s Agenda and is a member of the 2016 Class of Leadership Tennessee and 1998 Class of Leadership Nashville.

Dr. Clark serves on the corporate board of directors for FirstBank Financial Corporation (NYSE:

FBK). On the FirstBank board, she is an independent director serving the Risk Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. Prior to FirstBank, she was a founding corporate director for Avenue Bank (2007), one of Nashville’s fastest growing banks before an IPO offering in February of 2015 and a September 2016 merger with Pinnacle Bank.

Dr. Clark has a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She completed her doctorate at Vanderbilt University.