13 Hoosier Banker July 2015 FEATURE The slate has been set for new officer candidates in 2016 for the Indiana Bankers Association. Elections are scheduled to take place at the annual business meeting of the IBA Annual Convention, set this year for Sept. 13-15 in French Lick. New officer positions become effective Jan. 1, 2016, and officers serve for oneyear terms. The IBA nominating committee, led by immediate past chairman David W. Heeter, MutualBank, Muncie, has nominated the following officer candidates: • Chairman: Michael H. Head, First Federal Savings Bank, Evansville; • First vice chairman: Annette M. Russell, Security Federal Savings Bank, Logansport; • Second vice chairman: Clay W. Ewing, German American, Jasper. In addition to serving on the IBA board of directors, officers serve on the IBA executive committee, along with the immediate past chairman, two appointed directors and the IBA president/chief executive officer. The executive committee has the authority to act in lieu of the board between regular board meetings. Michael H. Head Mike Head, candidate for chairman, is president, chief executive officer and a director of First Federal Savings Bank, Evansville, which he joined in 1980. He has served as a board member of the University of Southern Indiana Foundation, on the advisory board of the University of Southern Indiana School of Business, and has been active with Deaconess Health Systems, Habitat for Humanity of Evansville and the St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation. Head also serves as a member of the Independent Community Bankers of America tax committee. He currently serves on the IBA board of directors as first vice chairman, after prior service as second vice chairman and southwest region director. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Indiana and an MBA from the University of Evansville. Annette M. Russell Annette Russell, candidate for first vice chairman, is president and chief executive officer of Security Federal Savings Bank, Logansport. She joined the bank in 1991. A certified public accountant, Russell is a graduate of Indiana UniversityKokomo, of the Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management and of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. She serves on the board of trustees of Logansport Memorial Hospital and on the American Bankers Association Community Bankers Council. Past involvement includes service as campaign chair for United Way; as chair of the Logansport/Cass County Economic Development Corp.; on the Reading Railroad advisory board; and on the boards of directors of the Cass County Chamber of Commerce and Special Olympics of Cass County. Additionally she serves on the IBA board as second vice chairman, after prior service as northwest region director. Russell was granted the Indiana University Kokomo Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006, was inducted into the IU Kokomo Alumni Hall of Fame in 2013, was named Chamber of Commerce Business Woman of the Year for 2007-08 and completed the IBA Leadership Development Program in 2013. She has been honored twice by NorthWestern Financial Review ‒ as a Rising Star in Banking in 2010 and as an Outstanding Woman in Banking in 2014. Clay W. Ewing Clay Ewing, candidate for second vice chairman, is president of German American, Jasper. He has more than 35 years of banking experience and joined German American in 1994 as president and chief executive officer of a subsidiary bank of the company. Ewing is active in regional economic development and currently serves as chairman of the Perry County Development Corp. and as a board member of the Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana. He currently serves on the IBA board of directors as a southwest region director and additionally serves on various other civic and community boards. Ewing is a graduate of Lockyear College and of The School for Bank Administration at the University of Wisconsin. t IBA Presents Slate of New Officer Candidates for 2016
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