SOUTHEAST
Citrus Bank in Jacksonville, Fla., has hired Cindy Stover as regional market executive for Northeast Florida.
She will report to president Andy Cheney.
Ms. Stover was the commercial banking group leader and a senior client manager at Bank of America in Jacksonville.
She had worked for the bank and its predecessors for more than 10 years. She was a Florida branch manager for Barnett Bank in 1998, when Nationsbank bought it; later that year Nationsbank bought California-based Bank of America and took its name.
Citrus Bank has $413 million of assets
North Atlanta National Bank in Alpharetta, Ga., has named Blake Cothran and Ashley Walker banking officers.Both will report to Jimmy Walker, chairman and CEO of the $24 million-asset bank.
Mr. Cothran will be responsible for Internet banking services, expanding participation in credit underwriting, business development, and client relationship management. He was an operations specialist responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of customer and internal operations functions. He joined the bank in October.
Ms. Walker will manage client services and will be responsible for the bank's neighborhood marketing program. She was a client service representative and a commercial real estate appraiser. Before joining the bank in July of last year she worked six months in the loan administration and accounting area at Valley Commerce Bank in Phoenix.
SOUTHWESTSouthwestern Bank in Oklahoma City has promoted Suzanne Baxter and controller Lisa Graham to vice president.
Both were assistant vice presidents. Their duties did not change.
Ms. Baxter had been the bank's assistant vice president of financial planning and a certified financial planner since 1996. She has 20 years of financial services experience.
Ms. Graham joined the bank in 1997. She has 21 years of banking and accounting experience.
Southwestern also promoted branch managers Susan Burger and Susan Donnelly to bank officer.
Ms. Burger manages the Oil Center Building branch. She has four years of banking experience.
Ms. Donnelly manages the South Penn branch. She has 11 years of banking experience and, like Ms. Burger, joined the bank in 1996.
Southwestern Bank has $105 million of assets.
MIDWESTFirst-Knox National Bank in Mount Vernon, Ohio, has promoted Sherri L. Stringfellow to administrative officer.
She was the administrative manager of electronic banking.
Ms. Stringfellow joined the bank in 1993 as its ATM coordinator, became the alternative delivery systems coordinator in 1996, and was promoted to the administrative manager of electronic banking in 1998.
She will report to Jesse Marlow, vice president of operations.First-Knox has $594 million of assets.
WESTManufacturers Bank in Los Angeles has hired Michael S. Aarons as a senior vice president and director of marketing and product management.
He will oversee the creation of the bank's first professional marketing department. His responsibilities will include market intelligence, communications, e-commerce, and product development.
Mr. Aarons was a senior vice president and director of marketing for three years at Chicago Title Co., a real estate services company whose full-service marketing function he established.
He has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and advertising consumer products and financial services. Before joining Chicago Title he was a senior vice president and director of marketing at the headquarters of Great Western Bank in Chatsworth, Calif., his employer for 10 years. (That bank, which was not related to its Omaha name sake, was bought by Washington Mutual Inc. in 1997.)
Manufacturers Bank, which has $1.1 billion of assets, is a subsidiary of Sakura Bank Ltd.
