Hoosier Banker 29 The activities of the Indiana Bankers Association operate under the guidance of the Association’s board of directors. Acting as governing body of the IBA, the board consists of 21 members: three elected officers, one past chairman, the Association president/CEO, two representatives of national associations, the Future Leadership Division president, a non-Indiana headquartered bank director, and 12 representatives from four IBA geographical regions. The functions of the board are to develop IBA policy and to establish long-range goals and objectives. The board also helps determine IBA’s legislative programs and positions on issues affecting the banking community. The IBA board acts with the same authority as the board of a bank or a corporation. An executive committee – composed of the chair, first and second vice chairs, immediate past chair, Association president/CEO and two appointed directors – is authorized to act in lieu of the board between regular board meetings. Officers serve one-year terms and are elected by the entire membership at the IBA Annual Convention. Members of the 2017 board assumed their positions on Jan. 1. Directors are listed by the capacities in which they serve. IBA Officers Annette M. Russell, IBA chair of the board, 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, and in June 2016 she was appointed to the Indiana Board of Depositories by former Gov. Mike Pence. Past involvement includes service on the board of trustees of Logansport Memorial Hospital; as campaign chair for the 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 a first and second vice chair and as northwest region director. IBA Presents 2017 board of directors Annette Russell, Security Federal Savings Bank, Logansport, enjoys the ambiance of the IBA Annual Convention. 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, first vice chair, is president, chief banking officer and secretary to the board of directors of German American Bancorp Inc., 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 Coalition of Southwest Clay Ewing, German American Bancorp Inc., Jasper, TEVXMGMTEXIW MR XLI -&% 0IKMWPEXMZI &VMIƤRK ERH 6IGITXMSR
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