Texas Countrywide Bank, centered in Sweetwater, a short while ago announced the promotion of Mike Fernandez to president and CEO, efficient Dec. 31.

Former CEO Monthly bill Johnson is shifting to the bank’s keeping firm, Mesa Economical Company, but will stay board chairman of Texas Nationwide Financial institution.

Fernandez retains a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana Point out College and a learn of organization administration degree from Texas A&M College-San Antonio, exactly where he graduated in 2012, and is also a graduate of the Southwestern Graduate College of Banking at Southern Methodist University. He is at this time chair-elect of the Abilene Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the board of the Unbiased Bankers Affiliation of Texas and the Brazos River Authority.

Johnson, a 2nd-era banker elevated in Hamlin, has pretty much 50 several years of banking expertise, starting in 1972 as a teller at The Farmers & Retailers Nationwide Bank in Hamlin. He and his father, the late W.T. “Dub” Johnson, opened Texas Nationwide Financial institution on May possibly 8, 1995.