Frank Clark
Categories
*Business and Professional Services *Utilities
About
Frank Clark is the retired Chairman and CEO of ComEd, a unit of Exelon Corporation. ComEd delivers electricity to more than 4 million customers across northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population.
Civic Involvement Clark is a founding member of the Business Leadership Council. He serves on the board of directors of the Big Shoulders Fund, was the former Chancellor of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, and past Chair of the Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board of RAND Corporation. He is a Life Trustee of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, a Life Trustee of DePaul University, and a Life Trustee and past Board Chair of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. Clark is the former President of the Chicago Board of Education and past Chair of the Executive Committee of The Chicago Community Trust. Clark is co-founder of the Rowe-Clark Math & Science Academy on Chicago's West Side.
Honors and Awards
Clark received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from DePaul University and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Governors State University. He is the recipient of the Order of Lincoln, Illinois’ highest civilian award. Clark has received numerous awards including the prestigious History Makers Award and the National Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice. In 2008, U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology Magazine named Clark to its annual list of the 100 Most Important Blacks in Technology and Fortune Magazine ranked Clark among the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America in 2002.