Delegates to the 66th Annual Meeting of the Young Bankers Division of the Tennessee Bankers Association elected new officers and directors in Knoxville, Tenn. Brooke Regen, SVP/Chief Risk Officer, Tennessee Region of First Citizens National Bank, Div. of Park National Bank in Dyersburg, was installed as the new chairman, accepting the gavel from the 2025-2026 chairman Coty Grissom, Vice President & Loan Officer of Homeland Community Bank in McMinnville.

New Officers
Delegates elected the following bankers to serve as officers:
• Chairman – Brook Regen, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, Tennessee Region, First Citizens National Bank, Div. of Park National Bank, Dyersburg
• Chairman-elect – C.J. Tate, Senior Vice President and Senior Credit Administrator, First Peoples Bank of Tennessee, Jefferson City
• Vice-chairman – Billy Snyder, Consumer Sales Manager and Vice President, Wellworth Bank, Lafayette

As chairman of the division, Regen will serve as a member of the Tennessee Bankers Association board of directors.

“It is an honor to serve as the chairman of the TBA Young Bankers Division, which has been shaped over the 6 decades by some of Tennessee’s most respected banking leaders,” said Regen. “As banks focus on identifying and developing the next generation of leaders, the Young Bankers Division continues a well-established track record of providing the network and professional development skills bankers need to become effective and influential leaders in their banks and communities.”

Directors
In addition to the four executive officers, the Young Bankers Division is governed by a nine-member board composed of three directors from each of the three grand divisions of the state—East, Middle, and West. Directors serve a three-year term with one director from each of the grand divisions rotating off each year and replaced by a newly elected banker from the same division.

Directors elected to the board during this year’s convention were:
• West TN Director: Katie Surratt, Chief Compliance Officer, Security Bank & Trust Company, Jackson
• Middle TN Director: Josh Richardson, VP/Relationship Manager, First National Bank of Pulaski, Fayetteville
• East TN Director: Logan Strunk, Loan Officer, First National Bank of Oneida, Oneida

Bankers who have completed their three-year terms and rotated off the board were:
• Wesley Fletcher, Vice President/City Executive of Johnson City, The First Bank and Trust Company, Johnson City
• Lauren Howell, AVP, Internal Auditor, Citizens Tri-County Bank, Dunlap
• Will Landry, Loan Officer, The Bank of Fayette County, Rossville

Directors continuing to serve out their terms on the board are:
• Andrew Barrett, SVP, Relationship Manager, Mountain Commerce Bank, Brentwood
• Montay Calloway, Vice President, Commercial Lender, Tennessee State Bank, Sevierville
• Jinny Culpepper, Vice President, Centennial Bank, Humboldt
• Jordan Knight, Senior Vice President, Commercial Banker, WesBanco, Knoxville
• Logan Tuck, Vice President, Macon Bank & Trust Company, Lafayette
• Dustin Boroughs, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Decatur County Bank, Decaturville

The Young Bankers Division was established in 1960 and is devoted to preparing Tennessee’s young bank officers to become the industry’s next generation of leaders.

The members of the division represent financial institutions across the state of Tennessee. In addition to the two-day professional development conference, Leadership Convention, the division hosts the Young Bankers’ Day on the Hill. This program reinforces the importance of involvement in the TBA’s government relations activities. During this annual event, bankers spend a day at the Capitol in Nashville engaging in the legislative process and learning about how the General Assembly functions.