Date : Thursday, April 30, 2026
Time: 12:15
Location: Roswell Area Park
Bill Johnson Community Activity Building
10495 Woodstock Road
Roswell, GA 30075

We are honored to welcome Rick Jackson as our speaker on April 30th. Rick Jackson is a Georgia businessman, philanthropist, and conservative running for Governor of Georgia.  He asserts that results matter more than rhetoric and Georgia’s future depends on action, not talk. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest healthcare staffing organizations. Under his leadership, the company has grown into a privately held enterprise generating more than $3 billion in annual revenue and expanding its reach through major acquisitions in workforce solutions and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Over the past 34 years, Jackson has conceptualized and developed more than 25 healthcare companies, drawing on experience that spans staffing firms, surgery centers, practice management organizations, clinics, and hospitals. His career began in medical recruitment in 1978, ultimately leading to the founding of Jackson Healthcare in 2000. The company’s growth includes the development of a $100 million corporate campus in Alpharetta and the acquisition of organizations such as USAntibiotics and LRS Healthcare. His work reflects a deep understanding of the complexities of healthcare delivery and the operational challenges facing hospitals nationwide.  Today, Jackson’s businesses serve all 50 states and help provide care for more than 20 million patients annually. His leadership has extended into moments of national and state‑level need, including efforts to preserve domestic antibiotic manufacturing and mobilize critical medical resources during the COVID‑19 pandemic.

Service has been a defining thread throughout Jackson’s career. Motivated by a personal mission to bring hope and opportunity to underserved children, he has supported numerous charitable organizations both locally and internationally. In 2010, he established the national Hospital Charitable Service Awards, the first program in the industry dedicated to recognizing hospital achievements at the program level. His philanthropic leadership earned him the Lifetime Achievement Humanitarian Wellness Award at the Atlanta Gospel Fest Music Health & Wellness Festival.  He has been a member of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and he founded Patients for Fair Compensation, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on improving the medical liability environment.

Jackson’s achievements are especially notable given the challenges of his early life. Raised in foster care, he moved through five foster homes and thirteen schools, spending part of his childhood in Atlanta’s Techwood Homes. He never knew his father, and his mother struggled with alcoholism. From these beginnings, he learned resilience, responsibility, and the necessity of hard work. When he could no longer afford college, he took a straight‑commission sales job, eventually purchasing the very company that first hired him. And because Rick grew up in foster care, he helped pass legislation that now allows former foster youth to attend college tuition-free, at zero new cost to taxpayers, giving hundreds of young people a real chance to break the cycle of dependency and poverty.

Jackson and his wife reside in the Atlanta area and are the parents of three children, who remain closely involved in the family’s business and philanthropic endeavors. Rick believes leadership is about identifying problems, demanding results, and holding systems accountable. He believes Georgia needs an outsider, not a career politician, who will cut taxes, lower costs, secure the state, and make government work for the people. As Governor, he desires to make Georgia the most affordable state in America by freezing property taxes, cutting the state income tax, eliminating wasteful spending, and raising standards in government and education.