NASHVILLE - Delegates of the Young Bankers Division of the Tennessee Bankers Association (TBA) elected new officers and directors for 2010-2011 during their annual Leadership Convention, held April 18-20. The convention also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Young Bankers Division.
Delegates to the convention elected four executive officers and four new directors. The following bankers will serve as officers during 2010-2011:
•President – Tracie Lomax, Branch Manager, Community South, Hohenwald
•President-elect – James S. (Jay) England, Vice President, Decatur County Bank, Parsons
•Vice President – Gregg Ketterman, Vice President, National Bank of Tennessee, Newport
•Immediate Past President – Wes Farragut, Vice President, Mountain National Bank, Sevierville
As president of the division, Lomax will serve as an ex-officio member of the TBA board of directors.
In addition to the four executive officers, the Young Bankers Division is governed by an eight-member board of directors. The state is divided into eight “groups” based on geographical regions. Directors serve a two-year term. To ensure continuity of leadership, elections are staggered so that one year delegates to the Leadership Convention elect new directors from the odd-numbered groups and the following year from the even-numbered groups.
This year, delegates selected the following bankers to serve on the board:
•Group 1 – Bo Blanken, Loan Officer, Citizens Bank and Trust of Grainger County, Rutledge
•Group 3 – Bridget Wooden, Loan Officer, Citizens Tri-County Bank, Pikeville
•Group 5 – Troy Reed, Vice President, First National Bank of Pulaski, Ardmore
•Group 7 – Michelle Bing, Executive Assistant and Board Secretary, Reelfoot Bank, Union City
The four directors who will continue their term of service on the board are:
•Group 2 – Traci Todd, Senior Vice President/Director of Lending, The Peoples Bank, Knoxville
•Group 4 – Chad Shoulders, Vice President, Macon Bank and Trust Company, Lafayette
•Group 6 – Terry White, Senior Vice President, Pinnacle National Bank, Nashville
•Group 8 – Jenny Hayes, Marketing Officer, BancorpSouth, Jackson
Four directors completed their terms and rotated off the board. Honored during the convention for their two years of service to the Young Bankers Division were: Gregg Ketterman, vice president, National Bank of Tennessee, Newport, who also was elected vice president; Monte McBee, vice president, Peoples State Bank of Commerce, Dunlap; Robby Moore, vice president, Bank of Perry County, Hohenwald; and Joseph H. (Jody) Kizer, Northwest Regional president/senior credit officer, First Citizens National Bank, Union City.
The Young Banker’s Division was established in 1960 and is devoted to preparing Tennessee’s young bank officers to become the industry’s next generation of leaders.
The members of the division represent financial institutions across the state of Tennessee. The officers and board members for the division serve as trustees for The Southeastern School of Bankingsm (TSSB), a two-year general banking school conducted annually by the TBA at the Owen Graduate School of Management on the Vanderbilt University campus. The division also sponsors the annual Introduction to Banking Seminar which serves as an orientation to the industry for those new to the field of banking and helps prepare bankers to attend the TSSB.
The division oversees the association’s Personal Economics Program (PEP), a financial literacy effort by bankers to educate consumers, both adults and youth, about such topics as banking, personal money management, the wise use of credit, the importance of saving, and identity theft and other types of fraud.
Another activity in which division members participate is the Young Bankers Day on the Hill. It is designed to demonstrate the importance of involvement in the TBA’s government relations activities. During this annual program, bankers spend a day at the Capitol in Nashville learning about how the General Assembly functions, meeting with government leaders and their own representatives, and attending committee meetings and hearings.
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