Nicole B. Thomas
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Nicole B. Thomas
President
Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida
Class B
Elected: January 2022
Term expires: December 31, 2028
Nicole B. Thomas is president of Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida, responsible for the operational and strategic direction of the flagship, tertiary services campus of Baptist Health. Ms. Thomas joined the health system in 2011 and in 2016 was named Baptist Medical Center South’s president, becoming the first female and first African American to lead a hospital in Baptist Health’s history. Founded in 1955, Baptist Health is the area’s only locally governed health system with six nationally accredited hospitals: Baptist Jacksonville, Baptist Beaches, Baptist Clay, Baptist Nassau, Baptist South, and Wolfson Children’s Hospital.
Ms. Thomas has held several system roles at Baptist Health, including chairing its transformation council; serving as interim chief human resources officer; and serving as senior vice president of specialty services overseeing neurosciences, orthopedics, and oncology, with primary executive responsibility for the formation of Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2015. Before joining Baptist, she was assistant vice president of physician operations for St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System in Houston and operations administrator at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville.
Ms. Thomas is a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She also serves on the board of directors of Florida Rock Properties Holdings Inc., Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute Board of Advisors, and the board of directors of Tiger Academy in Jacksonville.
She is a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the National Association of Health Services Executives. She was named among 177 women hospital presidents and CEOs to know by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2023 and 2025. Other distinctions include receiving the Read to Heal Award by Read USA and the Jacksonville Image Award in the Pinnacle category.
Ms. Thomas received her MHA from the University of North Carolina in 1996 and her BS from Dillard University New Orleans in 1994.