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ICBA Community Bankers of the Year

Independent Banker

ICBA inaugurated its Community Banker of the Year award program this year to recognize the exceptional work of the individual employees of ICBA member community banks. The association accepted nominations online throughout the month of September, allowing anyone to recommend a community banker for consideration. The Judges.

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. In Arkansas, Jim S. Jim Gowen Sr.

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