Fidelity Southern names new CEO for its bank

Fidelity Southern in Atlanta will soon have a new bank CEO.

The $4.4 billion-asset company said in a press release Friday that H. Palmer Proctor, the company’s president, will succeed James Miller Jr. at Fidelity Bank on April 27. Miller will remain the company’s chairman and CEO.

Proctor joined the company in 1990 and has been president since 2004.

Palmer Proctor is president of Fidelity Southern

Proctor “has had an exemplary banking career and has consistently demonstrated excellence as a leader of the highest integrity,” Miller said in the release. “His experience across the entire line of business uniquely qualifies him to step into this role."

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