Fran Marcum
Marcum Capital
P. O. Box 578
Tullahoma, TN 37388
4th Congressional District, 2004-2010
  

Frances (Fran) F. Marcum initially was elected vice-chair of the board in June 2005  and served as vice chair of the board for 2 one-year terms (2005 - 2007). She is a General Partner in Marcum Capital, a newly formed private equity investment fund.  She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University’s School of Education, Peabody College.

Marcum is a trustee and former chairman of the Motlow State Community College Foundation, a charter member and director of the Tullahoma Educational Foundation for Excellence, and a director and past president of the Hands-On-Science Center in Tullahoma.  She serves on the Peabody College Alumni Board and was a former commissioner of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

She is an active member of Rotary International and was the first woman elected into membership of the local chapter.  The Tullahoma Business and Professional Women’s Association awarded “Business Woman of the Year” to Marcum in 1991.  She is a member of the Committee of 200, an international organization of women executives and entrepreneurs.  She has served on the board of directors of the Nashville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta since 1995, having chaired the board twice.  She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the National Management Association and serves on the Industry Advisory Board for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

She is married to Dan J. Marcum, and they have two children and one grandchild.