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Columbia Bank Welcomes Jerri Pavitt, Senior Vice President and Private Banking Officer

   Jerri Pavitt, Senior Vice President and Private Banking Officer of Columbia Bank. (PRNewsFoto/Columbia Bank)

TACOMA, WA UNITED STATES
    TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Columbia Bank
announced that Jerri Pavitt has joined the Columbia Private Banking Team in
Bellevue as a Senior Vice President and Private Banking Officer.
    (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071023/AQTU256)
    "Jerri is a fantastic addition to our Bellevue Columbia Private Banking
team. Her passion and enthusiasm for providing comprehensive financial
solutions to her clients complements the core values of Columbia Private
Banking," said Dean McSweeney, Senior Vice President and Private Banking
Manager.
    Mrs. Pavitt has an extensive banking career with over 15 years in the
professional market, lending to physicians and dentists in the Northwest.
She began her career at Seafirst Bank/Bank of America, and was most
recently a Vice President in Business Banking with Cascade Bank. Ms. Pavitt
enjoys building client relationships and meeting client expectations both
on a personal and on a business level.
    A Seattle native and an eastside resident for 35 years, she resides in
Bellevue with her husband, Bill.
    Columbia Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Banking System,
Inc. (Nasdaq: COLB), is a Washington state-chartered full-service
commercial bank providing products and services to individuals, business
and the real estate community. With the July 23, 2007 completion of the
acquisitions of Mountain Bank Holding Company and Town Center Bancorp,
Columbia Bank has 48 banking offices in Pierce, King, Cowlitz, Kitsap and
Thurston counties in Washington State, and Clackamas and Multnomah counties
in Oregon. Included in Columbia Bank are former branches of Mt. Rainier
National Bank, doing business as Mt. Rainier Bank, with 7 branches in King
and Pierce counties. More information about Columbia can be found on its
website at http://www.columbiabank.com.
    Contact: Stephanie Ursino, Senior Vice President
             Marketing Director
             Columbia Bank
             253-305-1993


SOURCE Columbia Bank




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    CONTACT:
    Stephanie Ursino, Senior Vice President,
    Marketing Director of Columbia Bank, +1-253-305-1993