Georgia bankers recently elected and installed officers and members of the Leadership GBA Executive Committee of the Georgia Bankers Association.
 
Bill Inabinet, assistant vice president, Athens First Bank & Trust, a division of Synovus Bank, Monroe, was installed as the 2016-2017 Leadership GBA President. Joining Inabinet as officers this year are Wade Johnson, vice president and loan officer, Durden Banking Company, Twin City, as President-elect, and Keith Anthony, division president, Persons Banking Company, Forsyth as Vice President. Susan Keigans, executive vice president, Planters and Citizens Bank, Camilla, will serve as Past President.
 
The full slate of Leadership GBA Executive Committee Members, elected by their peers to represent geographic areas of the state or appointed to At Large positions are:
 
Group 1              Jonathan Seagraves, senior vice president, South State Bank, Savannah

Group 2                Wylie Moore Watt, Jr., vice president, Thomasville National Bank, Thomasville

Group 3                Daniel R. Minick, senior vice president, The Citizens Bank of Americus

Group 4                Nathaniel Ingle Doughtie, vice president, United Bank, Zebulon

Group 5                Chris J. Braun, senior vice president, KeyWorth Bank, Johns Creek

Group 6                Lucas G. Cowart, commercial lender, Morris Bank, Dublin

Group 7                Chad Thomason, senior vice president, ServisFirst Bank, Douglasville

Group 8                Russell L. Bates, president and CEO, Waycross Bank & Trust, Waycross

Group 9:              Candice Nanney, vice president/controller, Independence Bank of Georgia, Braselton

Group 10              Andrew A. Ainslie, III, vice president, Bank of Madison, Madison

At-Large               James M. Durrence, senior vice president, The Claxton Bank, Claxton

At-Large               Colin Stokes, vice president, National Bank of Georgia, Athens

At Large               Jenny Still Wofford, assistant vice president, Pinnacle Bank, Elberton

At Large               William C. Brown, vice president, Sea Island Bank, a division of Synovus Bank, Statesboro

Associate              Joel E. Foster, senior vice president, Raymond James & Associates, Atlanta
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Associate             Randall Griffin, president, CSRA Business Lending, Augusta
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