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December News Briefs

December 31, 2007

  • Lone Star State Bank Opens With $25 Million Capitalization in Lubbock and Odessa Markets; Kirk Thomas is Lubbock President, Brent Beakley Odessa President
  • Steve Boyd Elected Senior Vice President, James Griffith Senior Vice President for Quail Creek Bank, Oklahoma City, OK
  • Michael Lea Joins MidSouth Bank as Senior Vice President for its Louisiana and Texas Markets
  • United Bank, Springdale, AR, President and CEO Jeff Lynch Resigns; Craig Young To Serve While Board Searches for Replacement
  • International Bank of Commerce-IBC Bank, San Antonio, TX, Promotes Richrd Capps and Mike Sohn to Executive Vice President
  • Joe Don Martin to Lead American National Bank of Texas' North Dallas Branch
  • American Bankers Association and America's Community Bankers Association Merger Effective December 1

December 24, 2007 - Happy Holidays!!!

  • Harold Shockley Jr. Appointed President of IBC Bank's Corpus Christi (TX) Region
  • Home Federal Bancorp of Louisiana and First Louisiana Bancshares Enter Definitive Agreement to Merge in Shreveport
  • Frost Bank San Antonio (TX) Promotes Ericka Pullin to Senior Vice President, Marketing, and Kristin R. Salyer to Senior Vice President, Private Banking
  • Jeffery Ray Hammock Named President of Vision Bank, Durant, OK
  • Joe Kim King of Brady, TX Elected by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Board of Directors; Larry L. Patton of El Paso Elected to El Paso Branch Board of Directors
  • Ed Curtis Named Market CEO for Sterling Bank's Brookhollow Branch in Dallas, TX
  • Edinburg, TX-based First National Bank Taps Richard T. Hendee Branch President
  • Bank of America Premier Banking and Investments Names Lynn Searles Southwest Regional Bank Executive in Phoenix, AZ
  • Oklahoma Banks Recover from Ice Storm Damage
  • US Mint Rolls Out Madison Presidential Coins In November
  • WAMU to Raise Capital After Taking Mortgage Crisis Hit

December 17, 2007

  • John Castellano Named Senior Vice President, Comerica Bank, Dallas, TX
  • Jimmy Stead and Darlene Selsor Are Senior Vice Presidents for Fost Bank San Antonio, TX
  • Sterling Bank, Houston, TX, Names Julie R. Caggiano and Lynn E. Lovat Senior Vice Presidents and Associate General Counsels
  • Paul W. Craig Named Senior Vice President of Retail at ViewPoint Bank, Plano, TX
  • Gary Bishop Upped to Senior Vice President, Compass Bank in Fort Worth, TX
  • Michael Greenhoe Named Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending for Houston, TX-based Encore Bank's Fort Myers, FL Office
  • Signature Bank of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, Ups Bo Bittle, Kyle Kerwin and Debbie DeMarea to Senior Vice President
  • David Schaefer Is Oklahoma Region President, Based in Oklahoma City, for UMB Bank
  • Yancy Spivey Named President of Arvest Bank's Ada, OK, Branch
  • John E. Brockman Joins 1st Bank of Oklahoma, Claremore, OK, as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer
  • Wells Fargo Bank Names Laurie Cini Donocan Senior Vice President in Albuquerque, NM
  • Reese Carson is President for State National Bank, Las Cruces, NM

December 10, 2007

  • Gruver State Bank, Gruver. TX, Names K. Kyle Irwin President/CEO, Steven "Buster" Davis Executive Vice President and Teague Winger Senior Vice President
  • F&M Bank, Yukon, OK, Taps Curt Trindle as Senior Vice President/CLO
  • First Guaranty Bancshares Inc. and First Community Holding Company, Hammond LA, to Merge
  • Home Bancshares, Conway, AR, to Sell White River Bancshares Inc., Fayetteville, AR
  • ViewPoint Bank, Plano, TX, Promotes Karl Anderson, Wendi Costlow, Lennie Nicholson, and Patrick Ramsler to Senior Vice Presidents
  • Texas Capital Bank, Dallas, Names Randy Rapp Executive Vice President and Kurt A. Liles, Elizabeth Mitchell and Lslie Tieszen Senior Vice President
  • Greg Hernances Appointed Senior Vice President for Bank of Texas, Houston, TX
  • Liberty Bank, North Richland Hills, TX, Hires Jeff Huffman as Branch President in Fort Worth, TX
  • Capital One Financial Corp Appoints Don Backer Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking in Houston
  • Leslie Houston Tapped as Senior Vice President for Wachovia Bank in Dallas
  • Mark Pike Named Regional Vice President Heading Up Wells Fargo's New Mexico Regional Commercial Banking Office in Albuquerque, NM
  • Sterling Bank, Houston, Hires Ed Curtis as Market CEO in Dallas
  • Nelson Lerner Hired as Senior Vice President, First National Bank, Scottsdale, AZ
  • Heath Mire Named Senior Vice President/CLO for American Gateway Bank, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Bank of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Promotes Douglas Dejarnette to Senior Vice President
  • Becky Goumaz Named Senior Vice President, SpiritBank in Tulsa, OK

December 3, 2007

  • OMNI BANK, Metairie, LA Names John H. Finn III Senior Vice President
  • Stuttgart, AR-based The Farmers & Merchants Bank to Acquier Chart Bank of Perryville, AR
  • Dennis J. Akromis Appointed President of De Novo Oasis Bank, SSB, Houston, TX
  • Robert H. Baker Jr. Named Senior Vice President of Commercial and Private Banking at Tradition Bank's Ballaire Banking Center, Bellaire, TX
  • Derenda Fisher Named Senior Vice President and Manager of Lending at One World Bank, Dallas, TX
  • Regions Bank, Birmingham, AL, Taps Wade Morgan Senior Vice President in Austin, TX, and Chris Morris Senior Vice President and Market Manager in Houston
  • Town Center Bank, Coppell, TX, Names Lee M. Shanklin President of its Upcoming Denton, TX Banking Center
  • Don Stricklin Launches Far West Capital in Cedar Park, TX; Stricklin is Chairman, Cole Harmonson, President and CEO, and Melissa Cornett Senior Vice President
  • Brain E. Long Elected President of The American Recovery Association


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