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Attala County banker elected to MBA Board of Directors
Jeffrey B. Lacey of Kosciusko has been elected to a 3-year term on the Mississippi Bankers Association Board of Directors.
Lacey will represent his area of the state on the Board, which governs the 120-year-old association. MBA’s membership includes 103 commercial banks and savings institutions, representing 99 percent of the bank deposits in Mississippi.
Lacey is President and Chief Banking officer of Kosciusko-based M&F; Bank. Prior to that, he was the bank’s Rankin County President for six years and the bank’s Kosciusko Branch President for ten years.
Lacey earned an associate’s degree from Holmes Community College and a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi State University. He furthered his banking education by completing the Mississippi School of Banking and the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. Lacey has also completed the Southeastern Commercial Lending School and the ABA National Commercial Lending School.
Active in the Mid-Mississippi community, Lacey took part in Leadership Mississippi in 1997. He is a past president of the Kosciusko Attala Chamber of Commerce and a past chairman of the Kosciusko Attala County Economic Development Authority. Lacey is active in the Boy Scouts of America Andrew Jackson Council Pace Setter Committee. When his career took him to Rankin County, he was involved in many community activities in the Metro Jackson area.
Lacey and his wife, Misty, have two children, son Grayson, 6, and daughter Addie Hart, 4. They are members of First Presbyterian Church in Kosciusko.
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