Scott McGeorge Named to Simmons First Corporate Board Of Directors.PINE BLUFF Pine Bluff, city (1990 pop. 57,140), seat of Jefferson co., S central Ark., on the Arkansas River; inc. 1839. It is a port and trade center for an agricultural area and has industries producing metal, wood, and paper products; machinery; electrical equipment; and , Ark. -- W. Scott McGeorge has been named to the Simmons First National Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on NM: SFNC SFNC Shiba Fanciers of Northern California ) board of directors, according to J. Thomas May, chairman, president and chief executive officer. May noted, "We are honored to have an individual of Scott's reputation as a member of our corporate board of directors. Simmons First began its operations in 1903 and, on a point of interest, Scott is the great grandson of S.W. Boswell who was issued Simmons National Bank of Pine Bluff Stock Certificate Number Two, dated March 4, 1903." McGeorge, president of Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel Company, senior vice president of McGeorge Contracting Company, and vice president of Cornerstone Farm and Gin Company, received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas strives to be known as a "nationally competitive, student-centered research university serving Arkansas and the world." The school recently completed its "Campaign for the 21st Century," in which the university raised more than $1 billion for the school, used at Fayetteville. He joined Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel in 1969 and the company operates barges and towboats on the Arkansas, Mississippi, Red, Ouachita and Black rivers, and on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Gulf Intracoastal Waterway System of inland waterways, including rivers and canals, along the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It extends from Apalachee Bay, Fla., west to the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, a distance of more than 1,100 mi (1,770 km). . McGeorge is a director and president of the Trinity Foundation, on the board and executive committee of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association in Alexandria, Virginia, vice president of the National Waterways Conference, Washington, D.C., and on the board of Dredging Contractors of America. He is a past chairman of the Board of Arkansas Waterways Commission and served as chairman of the Pine Bluff-Jefferson County Port Authority and past president of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Branch of Associated General Contractors Associated General Contractors of America is the nation's oldest and largest trade association representing the construction industry. It was formed in 1918 following a request by President Woodrow Wilson. of America at Memphis, Tennessee. McGeorge has been actively involved with several local charitable and civic organizations to include Jefferson Regional Medical Center, United Way of Southeast Arkansas, Southeast Arkansas College and the Greater Pine Bluff Chamber of Commerce. Simmons First National Corporation is a $2.5 billion financial holding company with eight community banks in Pine Bluff, Lake Village, Jonesboro, Rogers, Searcy, Russellville, El Dorado and Hot Springs, Arkansas Hot Springs is the tenth most populous city in the state of Arkansas in the United States of America, the county seat of Garland County, Arkansas, and the principal city of the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area encompassing all of Garland County. . The Company's eight banks conduct financial operations from 78 offices, of which 76 are financial centers, in 44 communities. |
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