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Sussex Bancorp of Franklin, N.J., has promoted Candace Leatham to chief financial officer.
Ms. Leatham will remain the company's treasurer and executive vice president, as well as its senior accounting and financial officer.
Before taking on the title of executive vice president in 2003, she had been the senior vice president. Ms. Leatham has worked for the $388 million-asset Sussex since 1982.
SOUTHEASTBank of Granite Corp. of Granite Falls, N.C., said Charles M. Snipes has retired as the chief executive officer of the company and its Bank of Granite.
He will remain the company's chairman until its annual shareholder meeting.
Mr. Snipes has 50 years of banking experience. He was promoted to president and CEO of the company in 2005 and appointed its chairman in 2006.
He had been the president and CEO of the bank since 1994 and a director since 1982.
R. Scott Anderson, the bank's current president and chief operating officer, will succeed Mr. Snipes as the CEO of the company and the bank.
Mr. Anderson has worked for the bank since 2004 as its COO.
He became the president in 2006. Before joining the bank he had been the president and CEO since 1997 at Bank of Mecklenberg in Charlotte, which Centura Banks Inc. (now RBC Centura Bank) bought in 2000.
CNLBancshares Inc. of Orlando has hired Lynne Wines as the chief executive officer of CNLBank's South Florida division.
Ms. Wines was the president and CEO of commercial banking for South Florida at Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Ala. She joined Colonial BancGroup Inc. in 2005, when it bought Union Bank of Florida. Before that she had worked at Union Bank since 1986, holding the titles of chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and CEO, and oversaw the acquisition by Colonial.
CNLBank has $1.3 billion of assets.
SOUTHWESTCommunity Bank of Arizona, a $92 million-asset Glendale subsidiary of Community Bancorp of Las Vegas, has hired Stephen R. Curley as director and president.
Mr. Curley had been executive vice president of regional and business banking at 1st National Bank of Arizona since early last year. He joined 1st National in 2002 as senior vice president of strategic planning.
First Trust Corp. of New Orleans has hired J. Randolph Bryan as its chief operating officer and executive vice president.
Mr. Bryan had worked in various jobs since 1994 at Hibernia National Bank. He was promoted to executive vice president of marketing and delivery channel management in 2003 and became the executive vice president in charge of sales in 2005. (Capital One Financial Corp. bought Hibernia that year.)
First Trust Corp. has $834 million of assets.
WESTTemecula Valley Bank in California has promoted Frank Basirico Jr. to chief credit officer.
Mr. Basirico had been the chief administrative officer with the Temecula Valley Bancorp Inc. unit for the past two years. Earlier in his career he had worked for Chino Valley Bank (now Citizens Business Bank) as the executive vice president and senior loan officer.
Temecula Valley Bank has $1.3 billion of assets.
Sonoma Valley Bancorp in California said Mel Switzer Jr. has been elected its chairman and will remain its chief executive officer.
Mr. Switzer began his tenure with the company in 1990 as its president and CEO of its Sonoma Valley Bank.
Sonoma Valley Bancorp also has promoted Sean Cutting to president, chief lending officer, and chief administrative officer of the bank.
Mr. Cutting joined the $297 million-asset bank as a vice president in 2002 and became an executive vice president and its chief lending officer in 2006. Before that he worked in Los Angeles for Bank of Montreal and in San Francisco for ABN Amro Holding NV.
