Lead Independent Director of the Board since May 2022. Retired board chair of MV Transportation, Inc., a privately owned passenger transportation contracting firm and provider of paratransit services (from 2014 to 2022). She served as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for MV Transportation (from 2012 until 2018). Ms. Hicks received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. As executive vice president and general counsel of MV Transportation, Ms. Hicks directed all company legal affairs including its acquisition of businesses, defense and resolution of litigation, as well as corporate compliance and governance. From 2004 until 2008, Ms. Hicks was senior vice president and associate general counsel for TXU Corp., a Dallas based energy holding company. Following the acquisition of TXU Corp by private investors and its name change to Energy Future Holdings, Ms. Hicks became its corporate secretary and continued in the role of senior vice president and associate general counsel managing legal and board functions including corporate governance, compliance and security programs, employee benefits and executive compensation, litigation, risk and strategy. Earlier in her career she worked as a litigator in private law practice and served in various roles at the U.S. Department of Justice and in the White House where she was Associate Counsel to the President. Ms. Hicks legal, regulatory, compliance and energy-sector experience qualifies her to serve as a member of your Board.