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The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has elected FirstMerit Corp.'s John R. Cochran to a three-year term as a director.
Mr. Cochran is chairman and chief executive officer of FirstMerit, a $7.1 billion-asset bank holding company based in Akron.
The Cleveland Fed also reappointed Robert W. Gillespie, chairman and CEO of KeyCorp, to its federal advisory council. KeyCorp, which has $80 billion of assets, is headquartered in Cleveland.
Jean R. Hale, president and CEO of Community Trust Bank in Pikeville, Ky., was reappointed to a three-year term as a director of the Cleveland Fed's Cincinnati office.