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South Carolina Bankers Association

Board of Directors

South Carolina
Bankers Association

Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Jennifer T. Jones

Chair
CBL State Savings Bank
Greer, SC 

Board of Directors

H. Richard Sturm

Chair-Elect
Ameris Bank
Mt. Pleasant, SC

Board of Directors

Samuel R. Small, Jr.

First Vice-Chair
First Palmetto Bank
Columbia, SC

Board of Directors

J. Ted Nissen

Treasurer
First Community Bank
Lexington, SC

Immediate Past Chair
Boyd B. Jones
Synovus
Columbia, SC

2nd Immediate Past Chair
Fleetwood S. Hassell
The Bank of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

SCBA President & CEO
Fred L. Green III
South Carolina Bankers Association
Columbia, SC

Coastal Group Directors
Mickey M. Renner
HomeTrust Bank
Charleston, SC

J. Reeves Skeen
First Citizens Bank
Charelston, SC

Midlands Group Directors
Michael E. Edens
First Reliance Bank
Columbia, SC

Benita E. Lefft
Optus Bank
Columbia, SC

Upstate Group Directors
Michael M. Sarvis
First National Bank
Greenville, SC

Coleman Kirven
The Peoples Bank
Anderson, SC

Members-at-Large
Stacy B. Brandon
Bank of America
Greenville, SC

Mary D. Garcia
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Mt. Pleasant, SC

Alex Brame
Truist Bank
Greenville, SC

Laurence S. Bolchoz, Jr.
Coastal Carolina National Bank
Myrtle Beach, SC

William O. Buyck, Jr.
Bank of Clarendon
Manning, SC

Kevin M. Short
TD Bank, N.A.
Greenville, SC

SC Bankers School Board Chairman
Robert P. Hucks II
Coastal Carolina National Bank
Myrtle Beach, SC

Emerging Leaders Division Chairman
Othniel W. Laffitte
First Bank
Greenville, SC

Community Bankers Division, Chairman
R. Scott Plyler
South Atlantic Bank
Murrells Inlet, SC