Indiana Bankers Association Announces Board of Directors for 2020

Monday, January 6, 2020
IBA Communications
2020 Chairman Lucas White

The members of the 2020 board of directors of the Indiana Bankers Association have assumed positions, effective Jan. 1. Board members were elected at the IBA Annual Convention last September. The functions of the board are to develop IBA policy and to establish long-range goals and objectives. Additionally, the board helps determine the Association’s legislative programs and positions on issues affecting the Indiana banking community.

The 17 members of the IBA board of directors are listed below by the capacities in which they serve:

Officers

Lucas White, Chairman, The Fountain Trust Company, Covington

Michael S. Zahn, First Vice Chairman, First Federal Savings Bank, Huntington

Garry D. Kleer, Second Vice Chairman, First Bank Richmond

Andrew J. Briggs, Immediate Past Chairman, Farmers & Merchants State Bank, Archbold, Ohio

Amber R. Van Til, President and CEO, Indiana Bankers Association, Indianapolis
 

Constituent Directors

Michael K. Bauer, ABA Membership Council, WesBanco Bank, New Albany

Michael H. Head, ICBA State Director, First Federal Savings Bank, Evansville

Tim Massey, Non-Indiana Headquartered Bank Director, BMO Harris Bank, Indianapolis

Melodie K. Yarnell, Future Leadership Division President, Jackson County Bank, Seymour

 
Regional and At-Large Directors

Benjamin J. Bochnowski, North Region, Peoples Bank, Munster

Joseph D. Carlson, North Region, Community State Bank, Royal Center

Arden L. Cramer, At-Large, Logansport Savings Bank

Jeffrey W. Gump, North Region, Farmers and Merchants Bank, Laotto

Gregory Inman, South Region, Scottsburg Building and Loan Association

John M. Kennedy, South Region, Greenfield Banking Company

Michael C. Rechin, At-Large, First Merchants Bank, Muncie

Jamie R. Shinabarger, South Region, Springs Valley Bank & Trust Company, Jasper
 

About the IBA Chairman:

Lucas White, 2020 chairman of the Indiana Bankers Association, is president of The Fountain Trust Company, Covington. He also serves as a director of the Independent Community Bankers of America and is the current chairman of the ICBA Bank Services Committee. White was honored as a Rising Star in Banking by the ICBA in 2012 and by BankBeat magazine in 2015. White has served the IBA as past president of the Future Leadership Division (FLD) and on the IBA board in the capacity of first vice chairman, second vice chairman and FLD president. He joined The Fountain Trust Company in 1994 as a part-time teller. A practicing attorney, White earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, a JD from the IU Maurer School of Law at Bloomington as Order of the Coif, and he has completed the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin.

Biographies of all IBA board members are available online at: indiana.bank/about