Callaway Bank chooses President Bruce Harris' successor

by David Reed

April 22,2008

        The Callaway Bank's Board of Directors has chosen it chief operating officer, Kimberly Barnes, as the eventual successor to the current president and chief executive officer, Bruce Harris.
        Barnes has been promoted to senior executive vice president of The Callaway Bank and will retain her title as senior vice president of the holding company, Callaway Security Banks, Inc.
        Barnes will train alongside Harris, who has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
        A Harris has run Missouri's oldest independent bank since 1897. His great-uncle Will was president from the turn of the 19th Century until 1957, when his uncle John became president. His father, Overton, was president from 1981 until 1999, when Bruce took over the bank's leadership.
        "Kim brings over twenty years of pertinent banking experience, commitment and integrity to this position," Bruce Harris said in a news release.  "She is well qualified to lead this bank well into the future.  She and I will work very hard to ensure a smooth and effective transition."
        Barnes was among three people in the second tier of the bank's management, along with the Callaway County market president, Rick Gohring; Boone County market president, Gary Meyerpeter; and chief credit officer, Mike Imhoff.
        Barnes joined the bank in 1987 after earning a BS degree in accounting and a minor
in Computer Science from William Woods College.  She is a graduate of West Plains High School and is the daughter of Cecil and Helen Brixey of West Plains.  She and her husband, Rob, reside in Fulton.
 

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