Audrey Boone Tillman
Senior Executive Vice President; General Counsel, Aflac Incorporated
Audrey Boone Tillman, senior executive vice president and general counsel of Aflac Incorporated, directs Aflac’s Legal division and functions related to Compliance, Government Relations, Corporate Communications, Global Cybersecurity, Sustainability, and the office of the Corporate Secretary, including oversight functions of the General Counsel and Compliance offices at Aflac Japan, where the company generates more than half of its business.
Audrey joined Aflac in 1996 as a member of the Legal Department and was promoted to vice president in 2000. Her work as legal counsel to the Human Resources division led to her promotion to senior vice president of Human Resources in August 2001 and then to executive vice president of Corporate Services in 2008. She was promoted to General Counsel in May 2014.
During her tenure, the company has received multiple honors, including Fortune’s World's Most Admired Companies 25 times and Ethisphere’s World's Most Ethical Companies for 19 consecutive years. Aflac has been recognized by Black Enterprise magazine as one of its Best Companies for Diversity more than a dozen times and has appeared 25 times on LATINA Style magazine’s annual list of the 50 Best Companies for Latinas to Work in the U.S. For the past six consecutive years, Aflac has been honored by Points of Light as one of the 50 most community minded companies in the nation.
Audrey has received numerous awards and accolades during her career at Aflac. Most recently, she was named to Black Enterprise magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business list for the third consecutive year and Women’s Inc.’s Top Corporate Counsel list in 2019. She also received the Meritorious Public Service Medal awarded by the Department of the United States Army in 2020.
Before joining Aflac, Audrey served as an associate professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Prior to that, she worked in private practice and also served as a federal judicial law clerk with the U.S. District Court for North Carolina.
Audrey received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law. She is a member of the state bars of Georgia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Audrey serves on the board of directors for Equifax, Inc. and is involved in many local initiatives to improve the community in and around the Columbus, Ga. area. She is also a Diamond Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.