Former J.C. Penney CEO to leave Brinker board

Plano, Texas Restaurant company Brinker International confirmed in a Dallas Business Journal report that former J.C. Penney Co. chairman James E. Oesterreicher will retire from the company’s board of directors at the end of his term in October.

In a statement to the Journal, a spokeswoman for Dallas-based Brinker said the company’s leadership has yet to make a determination as to whether they will fill Oesterreicher’s position on the board, which he has held since 1994.

Oesterreicher previously retired from serving as chairman of the board at J.C. Penney Co. He also served as J.C. Penney’s CEO and vice chairman from January 1995 to January 1997.