Citizens National Bank’s Chief Executive Officer announced that Jeffrey D. Smith has been named Regional President for Citizens National Bank’s North Mississippi Region and will be relocating to Columbus.
With 31 years of banking experience, Smith joined Citizens National Bank in May of 1996 as Columbus Branch President. In 1999 he was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Lending and transferred to the Bank’s Corporate Office in Meridian. By 2007, he had been appointed to serve as the Bank’s Chief Credit Officer, and in this role, was responsible for overseeing all areas of the Bank’s Credit Administration Department as well as serving as Chairman of the Bank’s Executive Loan Committee. Since Oct. 2015, Smith has been serving in the capacity of Chief Lending Officer.
Originally from Eupora, Mississippi, Smith is a 1983 graduate of Mississippi State University. He and his wife, Theresa, have two sons, Patrick and Preston, as well as a grandson.
Citizens National Bank is an independent, Mississippi-owned community bank.
The Bank has been in continuous operation since 1888, and has 26 bank locations throughout the state of Mississippi in Meridian, Ridgeland, Olive Branch, Southaven, Madison, Flowood, Hattiesburg, Laurel, Waynesboro, Columbus, Macon, Kosciusko, Carthage, Philadelphia, and Quitman.
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