BankFirst Financial Services has hired William Corder as senior vice president and commercial lender in the bank’s Columbus office. Corder is a graduate of Mississippi State University, the ABA Commercial Lending School at Southern Methodist University and is currently attending the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. He has 10 years of experience [...] [...]

There is an age old debate over whether leaders are born or made. While I am not going to weigh on that debate in this column, I do find it particularly interesting when I come across outstanding leaders that I happened to have met in their youth. I played competitive tennis growing up, and I [...] [...]

The board of directors of BankFirst Financial Services announces the promotion of Moak Griffin to executive vice president and CEO-elect and Mary Ann Gray to executive vice president and CFO. Griffin is a graduate of Mississippi State University, the Mississippi School of Banking, the ABA Commercial Lending School at Southern Methodist University and the ABA [...] [...]

The board of directors of BankFirst Financial Services has announced the promotion of Sam Henderson to Community Bank president of Columbus. Henderson has been in banking since 1980 and has served as a senior commercial lender with BankFirst since 1994. He is a graduate of Mississippi State University, the Mississippi School of Banking, the Graduate [...] [...]