Pana, IL: Peoples Bank & Trust has announced the promotion of four key employees, Susan Palliser, McKennah Dugger, Angela Horath, and Haylee Ishmael.
Susan Palliser has been promoted to Assistant Vice President, Consumer Banking in Waverly and Palmyra. Sue joined the Bank in October 2011 as a Consumer Banker and was later promoted to Consumer Banking Officer. In her role, Palliser will provide leadership to deliver exemplary quality banking services to consumer banking customers in the Waverly and Palmyra branch areas.
McKennah Dugger has been promoted to Consumer Banker in Springfield. Dugger joined the Bank in May 2018 as a part-time teller in our Waverly office. Dugger was promoted to a Customer Service Representative position in 2020. In her new role, Dugger will be responsible for providing courteous, individualized, and comprehensive banking services to consumer banking customers in the Springfield branch area.
Jeff Grimmett, AVP Consumer Banker in Waverly, Springfield, and Palmyra has taken on a new role as an AVP, Consumer Banker in Taylorville, Springfield, and Morrisonville. Grimmett is a native of Waverly and has been with the Waverly branch since 2004. Grimmett says he is passionate about customer service and will continue to offer his expertise to PBT customers.
In the Operations Department, Angela Horath has been promoted to AVP, Deposit Operations. Horath originally joined the Bank in 2015 in Altamont as a teller and was later a Customer Service Representative. She took a year off in 2020 and returned as a bookkeeper in June 2021. Horath has lived in Altamont for nine years with her husband and three children. She currently works in both the Altamont and Pana branches. In her new role, Horath is responsible for the administration and implementation of the bank’s bookkeeping/operations department. She looks forward to helping this department run smoothly and taking care of the needs and problems of our customers.
Haylee Ishmael, a part-time teller in Pana has taken a full-time bookkeeping position in the Deposit Operations area. Ishmael joined the Bank in April 2022. She is a Pana native and a graduate of Pana Sr. High School.
“The talents and abilities of our employees are very valuable to our team. We are fortunate to have an outstanding group of people to serve our customers now and in the future,” said John Gardner, Peoples Bank & Trust President and CEO “and I’m very pleased Sue, McKennah, Jeff, Angela and Haylee have agreed to assume even greater responsibility in our organization.”
Peoples Bank & Trust is a locally owned and managed independent community bank with ten offices located in Pana, Taylorville, Altamont, Tower Hill, Charleston, Springfield, Morrisonville, Palmyra, Waverly and White Hall. Peoples is a full service bank offering outstanding customer service to consumers, small business, and farmers in Central Illinois. People First Bancshares, Inc., with corporate offices in Pana, Illinois, is the holding company for Peoples Bank & Trust.
