ATLANTA, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
(FHLBank Atlanta or the "Bank") today announced that the Federal Housing
Finance Board (Finance Board) has appointed three new directors to FHLBank
Atlanta's board of directors. The Bank's board of directors also has
elected a new director to fill the vacancy as of January 1, 2008 for the
directorship the Finance Board has designated for the state of Georgia.
The Finance Board appointed the following individuals to serve as
directors for three-year terms beginning on January 1, 2008:
Linwood Parker Harrell Jr. served as the non-executive board chairman
of the Federal Home Loan Bank System's Office of Finance from September
2003 to March 2007. Prior to his retirement from Korn Ferry International,
Harrell held several executive positions, including chief operating
officer, Korn Ferry North America and Korn Ferry Europe, and managing
director of global financial services. Before joining Korn Ferry in 1984,
Harrell was a partner at Arthur Young and Company and a vice president at
Wachovia Bank. Harrell graduated from Princeton University with an
undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, and
completed graduate work at the London School of Economics.
Jonathan Kislak joined Antares Capital Corporation in Miami as a
general partner in 1999. An experienced banker, mortgage banker, and
investor, he has served in the following leadership positions: founder of
Kislak Capital Corporation, an investor in start-up and early stage
companies; chairman of Kislak Financial Corporation, a bank holding company
for Kislak National Bank that was sold in 2005; and president of J. I.
Kislak Mortgage Corporation, a company that grew from $300 million to over
$5 billion under his direction. From 1989 to 1991, Kislak was deputy under
secretary for Small Community and Rural Development at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) with responsibility for policy development and
management oversight for three USDA agencies. He began his career as a
regional representative at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. Kislak
holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College.
Henry Gary Pannell is an attorney with Miller Hamilton Snider & Odom,
LLC in Atlanta. He currently serves as a trustee with the Atlanta Nehemiah
Housing Trust, a fund to provide interest-free construction loans to build
affordable housing for municipal employees. From 1973 to 2000, he held
leadership positions with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
(OCC) in Atlanta, including district counsel for the Southeastern District
and regional counsel, 6th National Bank Region. Before joining the OCC in
Atlanta, Pannell served as an attorney with Wachovia Bank in Winston Salem,
N.C., and with the OCC law department in Washington, D.C. Pannell earned a
Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia Law School and a Master of
Business Administration from Georgia State University.
As previously reported by the Bank, in connection with the Bank's 2007
election of directors, the director-elect for the directorship that the
Finance Board designated for the state of Georgia notified the Bank that he
would be unable to serve on the Bank's board of directors because of
scheduling conflicts. On November 29, 2007, the board of directors elected
William F. Easterlin, III to fill the vacancy as of January 1, 2008, for
the Georgia directorship. Easterlin will begin serving his three-year term
on January 1, 2008.
Easterlin has served as president and chief executive officer of
Queensborough National Bank and Trust since 1995. Prior to his appointment,
he served as a vice president with First National Bank and Trust in
Louisville, Ga., and a corporate loan officer and assistant vice president
with Bank of America in Houston. In 2005, Easterlin was named a trustee of
the Georgia Bar Foundation, where he serves on the Conflicts of Interest
and Corporate Governance Committee. He has also served two year terms as
director for both the Georgia Bankers' Association and Community Bankers'
Association. Easterlin holds a finance degree from the University of
Virginia and a Masters of Business Administration from Emory University.
About FHLBank Atlanta
The Bank is a cooperative financial services organization that provides
funding, community development grants, and other banking services to more
than 1,200 member financial institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of
Columbia. The Bank is one of 12 district banks in the Federal Home Loan
Bank System, which since 1990 has contributed more than $3 billion to
affordable housing development in the United States.
SOURCE Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
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