On May 29, 2009, the FDIC Board of
Directors approved establishing the FDIC Advisory Committee on Community
Banking to provide the FDIC with advice and guidance on a broad range of
important policy issues impacting small community banks throughout the
country, as well as the local communities they serve, with a focus on
rural areas.
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Members of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Community Banking gather for the Committee’s first meeting on October 15, 2009, at the FDIC’s Board Room in Washington, D.C. Seated (l to r): Deborah A. Cole, President and CEO, Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Co., Nashville, Tennessee; Ignacio Urrabazo, Jr., President, Commerce Bank, Laredo, Texas; FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair; Jack E. Hopkins, President and CEO, CorTrust Bank, N.A., Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Rebeca Romero Rainey, Chair and CEO, Centinel Bank, Taos, New Mexico. Standing (l to r): Jan A. Miller, President and CEO, Wainwright Bank & Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts; Bruce A. Schriefer, President, Bankers’ Bank of Kansas, N.A., Wichita, Kansas; Timothy W. Koch, Professor and Chair, Finance Department, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina; Craig M. Goodlock, Chairman and CEO, Farmers State Bank, Munith, Michigan; Laurie Stewart, President and CEO, Sound Community Bank, Seattle, Washington; Charles G. Brown, III, Chairman and CEO, Insignia Bank, Sarasota, Florida; James H. Gray, Chairman, Beach Business Bank, Manhattan Beach, California; Matthew Williams, Chairman and President, Gothenburg State Bank & Trust Company, Gothenburg, Nebraska; R. Daniel Blanton, President and CEO, Southeastern Bank Financial Corporation and Georgia Bank & Trust of Augusta; and John P. Lewis, President and CEO, Southern Arizona Community Bank, Tucson, Arizona. Not shown, Dorothy J. Bridges, President and CEO, City First Bank of D.C., Washington, D.C.