Scrushy, Richard

Richard Scrushy grew up in Selma, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Alabama, Troy University, and Birmingham Southern College. He's known as a dynamic and successful entrepreneur who founded, built, and served as chairman and CEO of two Fortune 500 companies-both listed on the NYSE and both with revenues in the billions of dollars. One of these became a leading, quality, cost-effective healthcare company with more than 2,350 locations worldwide and employing over 52,000 people.

Over a twenty-year period,