10 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2020 COVER STORY Lucas White Focused on the future Lucas White, 2020 chairman of the Indiana Bankers Association, has set high goals for his leadership tenure. In addition to overseeing the final year of IBA’s ambitious three-year strategic plan, he intends to visit every member bank headquartered in Indiana. One other IBA chairman in recent history set out to visit every Indiana bank. Larry W. Myers, president and CEO of First Savings Bank, Clarksville, accomplished the feat in 2015. White, who serves as president of The Fountain Trust Company, Covington, will be adding his own touch to bank visits by traveling to some of the calls by motorcycle. White’s history with the Indiana banking community stretches back four generations. His great-grandfather, William N. White, purchased shares in The Fountain Trust Company a few years after the Great Depression. By 1940 he became president of the bank and continued in that role for 25 years, until he passed away at age 90. Since then, all of the presidents of The Fountain Trust Company have been descendants of William White: Luke White, Kip White and now Lucas White. Each also have been lawyers, operating the firm of White & White Attorneys LLP, which adjoins the bank. Another family legacy is repeated in Lucas White’s being elected chairman of the IBA. His father Kip served in the top volunteer leadership position of the former Independent Bankers Association of Indiana during the negotiation and passage of the Banking Structure Reform Act of 1985. Kip White is now chairman and CEO of The Fountain Trust Company. Campbell White, Lucas’ brother, serves the bank as executive vice president. Lucas White joined The Fountain Trust Company in 1994 as a part-time teller and was promoted to president in 2016. He is a director of the Independent Community Bankers of America, chairman of the ICBA Bank Services Committee and past chairman of the ICBA Safety and Soundness Committee. White was honored as a Rising Star in Banking by the ICBA in 2012 and with the same title by BankBeat magazine in 2015. In addition to having served on the IBA board during his FLD presidency, White has served the board as first vice chairman and second vice chairman. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, a JD from the IU Maurer School of Law at Bloomington as Order of the Coif, and he has completed the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. White and his wife Sue, a magistrate, have three sons: Lyric, 7; Oliver, 6; and Graham, 1. Both parents are proficient in Italian and have traveled extensively, including a trip to Europe last summer with their children. Hoosier Banker interviewed White at his office in Covington.
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