Bob Corker

Former U.S. Senator

Tennessee

BOB CORKER is a successful businessman and former United States Senator. Corker represented Tennesseans in the Senate from 2007-2019, where he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was very active on the banking committee, and became a national and global thought leader on fiscal, financial, and foreign policy issues.

He was Tennessee’s commissioner of finance and mayor of Chattanooga before being elected to the Senate, but he spent most of his life in business. In 1978 he founded his first company that led to lifelong involvement in the construction and development fields. In 1986, he cofounded and chaired a non-profit, Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, which has helped thousands of families secure affordable housing.

After an extensive public service career, in January of 2019, Corker returned to business. He currently serves as chairman of Rise Partners, which acquires and develops properties throughout the Southeast, and is chairman of One-to-One Health, which delivers scalable advanced primary care both on site and virtually across 50 states. He is on the board of Skyuka Hall, a school for young people with learning differences, along with being an advisor to several philanthropic and policy based entities. Corker and his wife, Elizabeth, call Chattanooga home.