Rankin Elected To Board of Directors At Peoples Bank

MENDENHALL – Peoples Bank President and CEO Dennis Ammann today announced that John Rankin has been elected to the bank’s Board of Directors.

Rankin currently serves as an Investment Officer and Commercial Loan Officer at Peoples Bank, and has served as Secretary to the Board since March, 2010.

He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Banking and Finance and conducted Financial Research in the British Studies Program, held in London, England. He subsequently earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from USM. In 2010 he completed studies at the Graduate School of Banking, conducted at Louisiana State University.

Prior to joining Peoples Bank, Rankin was affiliated with BankPlus in Jackson and was a Bank Examiner with the Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance. He also worked as a Bank Examiner under the umbrella of the Missouri Division of Finance, St. Louis District Office.

Rankin was named a 2009 Best of Jackson for Best Banker by the Jackson Free Press and has been certified as a Credit Examiner and an Operations Examiner.  While at USM, Rankin earned the Finance Faculty Award and was the recipient of the First Bancshares Scholarship.

He is active in a host of civic and economic development endeavors, including service as a member of the Mendenhall Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the Simpson County Development Foundation.  He is a member of the Mendenhall Community Club and a former member of The Phoenix Club of Jackson. While he lived in the metro Jackson area, Rankin served on the Board of the Fondren Association of Businesses and the Broadmeadow Neighborhood Association.

Rankin serves as a coach in the First Baptist Church Upward Basketball program and as a volunteer for the Mississippi Bankers Association’s Get Smart About Credit program. Additionally, he has worked with Habitat for Humanity and Stewpot Community Services and has been a volunteer instructor with Junior Achievement and the Redeemer Church Tutoring Program.

“John brings a great deal of leadership and vision to our Board of Directors,” Ammann said. “I am pleased to announce his election in the certain knowledge that our customers are the ultimate beneficiaries of his work.”