52 SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 FIRST FARMERS BANK & TRUST COMPANY / Converse Mark A. Holt has been appointed president of the bank and a director of First Farmers Financial Corp. and First Farmers Bank & Trust. Gene E. Miles remains president and CEO of First Farmers Financial Corp., CEO of First Farmers Bank & Trust, and a director of both. Holt has served the bank as executive vice president since 2015 and on the board of directors of the bank and holding company from 1997 to 2015. Additionally, Holt is a doctor of veterinary medicine; a member of national, state and local veterinary associations; a member of the Purdue University President’s Council; and a former member of the Grant County Purdue Extension board of directors. BANKERS ON THE MOVE Bank marketers please email personnel news to: HB@indianabankers.org Deadlines Nov/Dec - Oct. 1 Jan/Feb ‘20 - Dec. 1 Mar/Apr ‘20 - Feb. 1, 2020 DEPARTMENTS GERMAN AMERICAN BANK / Jasper Jane Balsmeyer has been promoted to senior vice president, director of marketing. She has been serving in the marketing department for more than 30 years. Balsmeyer serves on the board of directors of Anderson Woods and on the mission committee of Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center. She is a graduate of Indiana University. Lindsay Botsch has been promoted to senior vice president, commercial banking team lead. She has been with the bank for 11 years and has more than 15 years of banking experience. Botsch began her banking career as a credit analyst and later transitioned into commercial banking. She serves on the boards of Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging & More, Southwestern Indiana Small Business Development Center and A Network of Evansville Women. Botsch also volunteers for the American Heart Association Go Red For Women initiative and the YMCA Half Marathon Committee. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Indiana. FIRST FINANCIAL CORPORATION / Terre Haute Aleks Cirulis has joined First Financial Bank, NA, as staff attorney. He previously worked for the Indiana secretary of state as senior enforcement counsel from 2017 to 2019 and as enforcement attorney from 2013 to 2017. Cirulis earned a bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University and a JD from the Western Michigan University Cooley School of Law. Joey L. Gallagher has joined First Financial Bank, NA, as vice president and commercial loan officer. He has five years of commercial lending experience, has an Illinois limited lines producer insurance license, and is registered with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System. Gallagher is a member of the Olney Elks Lodge and a graduate of Southern Illinois University. Jeffrey E. Tarrh has been promoted to collections officer at The Morris Plan Company, an affiliate of First Financial Corporation. He previously served for 10 years as a member of the mortgage servicing department at First Financial Bank, NA, most recently as loss mitigation specialist. A graduate of Ivy Tech Community College, Tarrh currently is pursuing a bachelor’s degree from Indiana State University. MERCHANTS BANK OF INDIANA / Carmel Patty Cummins has joined Merchants Mortgage, a division of Merchants Bank of Indiana, as a mortgage loan originator. She has more than 30 years of mortgage lending experience, serving as a mortgage loan originator, home loan consultant, mortgage processor and mortgage servicing manager. A graduate of Indiana State University, Cummins has earned designation as an All In One Loan certified mortgage professional.
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