Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 15, 2004
JAMES E. SMITH , Chairman and CEO of Exchange National Bancshares, Inc.,
was the 2001-2002 President of the American Bankers Association. He is
Chairman and CEO of Citizens Union State Bank & Trust in Clinton,
Missouri. Mr. Smith was elected to his current bank position in 1974 and
became President of Union State Bancshares Inc., Clinton, Missouri in
1997. In 2002 he was elected Chairman and CEO of Exchange National
Bancshares, Inc. Mr. Smith entered banking in 1967 as a computer
programmer, and was later promoted to Assistant Vice President of the
correspondent banking department at Boatmen's Union National Bank in
Springfield, Missouri. Prior to that he was a computer programmer for
General Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and from 1963 to 1966 was a
professional baseball player in the New York Yankee baseball
organization. An active volunteer with ABA, his service includes the
chairmanship of the Communications Council, the Government Relations
Council, the Bankers Electronic Network and the Task Force on Government
Relations Grassroots. He is a past ABA Director and a past President of
the Missouri Bankers Association. Mr. Smith is a Board member of the
Clinton Industrial Development Corporation and a past President of the
Clinton Chamber of Commerce. He holds a BS in Business from Southwest
Missouri State University, and is a graduate of Cannon Trust School in
Charlotte, North Carolina. Profile
National Bancshares.
Mr. Smith: Exchange National Bancshares is a three-bank holding company
headquartered in Jefferson City,
