For release: Oct. 17, 2001
Contact: Charles B. Henderson, (314) 444-8311

Thomas W. Smith Joins St. Louis Fed's Louisville Branch Board

ST. LOUIS -- The executive committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' board of directors has appointed Thomas W. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Ephraim McDowell Health in Danville, Ky., to the board of directors of the St. Louis Fed's Louisville Branch for a term ending Dec. 31, 2002.

Smith also serves on the board of trustees of both Campbellsville University and St. Catharine College, and is a volunteer assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Allied Health. He is also a diplomate in the American College of Healthcare Executives and has served as a member of the board of directors of the Kentucky Hospital Association.

With branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis serves the Eighth Federal Reserve District, which includes all of Arkansas, eastern Missouri, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. In addition to serving as a bank for depository institutions and the U.S. government, each Reserve Bank monitors economic conditions in the District, participates in formulating monetary policy, and supervises state-chartered member banks and bank holding companies to foster safety and soundness of the District's banking and financial institutions and to protect the credit rights of consumers.

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