ABA awards two Texas bankers as Emerging Leader recipients

The American Bankers Association (ABA) awarded two Texas bankers as recipients of this year’s ABA Emerging Leader Awards. The awardees are Jessica Lovell, SVP, director of customer experience at First National Bank Texas in Houston, and Lacy Samples, SVP/compliance officer/CRA officer at NBT Financial Bank in Fort Worth.

The winners were selected by a steering committee of industry professionals from across the nation after a review of nominations from across the country. The qualities and characteristics the committee evaluated as judging criteria included dedication to the profession, inventiveness, leadership skills, mentoring ability, personal integrity, tenure at the bank and broader commitment to a career in banking, sustained career progress, and academic training, including advanced degrees and certificates/certifications.

See more on the ABA Emerging Leader Awards here.