St. Louis Fed Announces Changes to Board of Directors

ST. LOUIS - The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis announced the following changes to its board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2014:

Sharon D. Fiehler, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Peabody Energy in St. Louis, was named chairman of the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors.

George Paz, chairman and CEO of Express Scripts, Inc. in St. Louis, was named deputy chair of the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors.

D. Bryan Jordan, chairman, president and CEO of First Horizon National Corporation, in Memphis, Tenn., was elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Cal McCastlain, partner at Dover Dixon Horne PLLC law firm in Little Rock, Ark., was re-elected to a second three-year term on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Also serving on the board of directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are:  William E. Chappel, president and CEO of The First National Bank in Vandalia, Ill.; Gregory M.  Duckett, senior vice president and corporate counsel of Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in Memphis;  Sonja Yates Hubbard, CEO of E-Z Mart Stores Inc. in Texarkana; and Susan S. Stephenson, co-chairman and president of Independent Bank in Memphis.

The St. Louis Fed is a corporation chartered under the Federal Reserve Act, and is governed by a board of directors, whose nine members provide oversight of Bank management. Members of the board of directors of the St. Louis Fed and the advisory boards of its three branches in Little Rock, Ark., Louisville, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn., are familiar with the economic and credit conditions of their respective regions.  Their observations – along with the economic data and information gathered and analyzed by St. Louis Fed staff – help ensure that conditions of Main Street America are represented in Federal Open Market Committee deliberations in Washington, D.C.