17 Hoosier Banker July 2016 FEATURE The slate has been set for new officer candidates in 2017 for the Indiana Bankers Association. Elections are to take place at the annual business meeting on Sept. 12 at the IBA Annual Convention in French Lick. New officer positions become effective Jan. 1, 2017; officers serve for one-year terms. The IBA nominating committee, led by immediate past chairman Larry W. Myers, First Savings Bank, Clarksville, has nominated the following officer candidates: • Chairman: Annette M. Russell, Security Federal Savings Bank, Logansport; • First vice chairman: Clay W. Ewing, German American, Jasper; • Second vice chairman: Andrew J. Briggs, Bank of Geneva. 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. Annette M. Russell Annette Russell, candidate for IBA 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 University-Kokomo, of the Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management and of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. She serves on the American Bankers Association Community Bankers Council. Past involvement includes service on the board of trustees of Logansport Memorial Hospital; 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 had prior service on the board of the Indiana Bankers Association as first vice chairman, second vice chairman and 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 magazine ‒ as a Rising Star in Banking in 2010 and as an Outstanding Woman in Banking in 2014. Clay W. Ewing Clay Ewing, candidate for first vice chairman, is president of German American, Jasper. He has more than 35 years of banking experience, and he 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 IBA Presents Slate of New Officer Candidates for 2017 Coalition of Southwest Indiana. He additionally serves on various other civic and community boards and has served the Indiana Bankers Association as second vice chairman and southwest region director. Ewing is a graduate of Lockyear College and of The School for Bank Administration at the University of Wisconsin. Andrew J. Briggs Andrew Briggs, candidate for second vice chairman, is president and chief executive officer of the Bank of Geneva. He is the fifth-generation member of his family to serve as president of the bank. Briggs has 40 years of banking experience and was named to his current position in 1994. He is active on the boards of directors of: Bank of Geneva, chairman; Limberlost Bancshares Inc., chairman; Limberlost State Historic Site, corporate secretary; Adams County Economic Development, treasurer; Adams Public Library System, treasurer; Indiana State Museum, treasurer; and Northeast Indiana Regional Development Authority, which administers matching funds available through the state’s Regional Cities Initiative. Briggs previously served as president of the Geneva Town Council, as treasurer of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership and as a director of the Swiss Village Retirement Center. Additionally he is a past board member of the Indiana Bankers Association and a member of the IBA Forty Year Club. Briggs is a graduate of Ball State University. t
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