On February 22, 2022, the Board of Trustees of Physicians Realty Trust appointed Ava E. Lias-Booker to join the Company's Board, effective as of March 1, 2022. In connection with Ms. Lias-Booker's appointment, the Board increased its size from 8 to 9 trustees. Ms. Lias-Booker, 61, is a partner at McGuireWoods LLP, an international law firm, where she leads the litigation practice of the firm's Baltimore office.

Ms. Lias-Booker has been with McGuireWoods LLP since 2004. Ms. Lias-Booker has over three decades of first chair trial experience representing businesses from a broad range of industries in complex commercial and civil litigation. She is also chair of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Committee, a member of its Diversity Action Council, and part of its seven-member Associates Committee.