2026 Pub. 15 Issue 5

Annual Meeting and Election of KBA Officers On the closing day of the event, Kendal Kay, President and CEO of Stockgrowers State Bank, Ashland, assumed the KBA Board Chairmanship during KBA’s 139th Annual Meeting. Meet Your 2026-2027 Officers: (L-R) Julie Hower, Past Chairman, Farmers & Drovers Bank, Council Grove; John Dicus, Vice Chairman, Capitol Federal Savings Bank, Topeka; Kendal Kay, Chairman, Stockgrowers State Bank, Ashland; Kyle Campbell, Chairman-Elect, Astra Bank, Abilene; and Doug Wareham, KBA President & CEO U.S. Navy Veteran and retired Southwest Airlines Pilot Tammie Jo Shults delivered an inspirational closing keynote session for day two of the Summit. Shults took the audience through her career as one of the first female F/A-18 Hornet Pilots in the United States Navy, then becoming a Southwest Airlines Pilot where she heroically saved the lives of 148 people during an air catastrophe. Attendees ended day two of the event with a KBA Leadership Reception and Dinner at the Cheyenne Mountain Lodge. 11

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