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9 Arkansas Community Bankers Among the 2025 Barret Graduates

2025 marked the 52nd year for the Barret Graduate School of Banking. ACB has proudly
endorsed Barret as a premier graduate banking school for our member bankers since 1996.

This year's graduates included nine community bankers from Arkansas. ACB congratulates
each of them on a job well done!

Kelly Burns - Union Bank and Trust Co., Monticello; Chase Grounds - Bank OZK, Little
Rock; Brandt McDonald - First Community Bank, Batesville; Jeremy Orman - Peoples
Bank, Sheridan; Cheryld Phillips - RiverBank, Pocahontas; Nicole Smith - First
Community Bank, Batesville; Andrea Smith - Southern Bancorp Bank, Arkadelphia;
Marcie Varner - First National Bank of Commerce, Walnut Ridge; William Fogleman - First
National Bank of Eastern Arkansas, Forrest City.

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