A profile about Patti Steele, president and CEO of First Volunteer Bank, describes how the financial institution has grown to become the largest locally-owned bank in the region.
From the article:
When Patti Steele joined the former Marion Trust & Banking Co. in 1987 the bank had about $50 million in assets.
But over the past three decades, through a series of acquisitions, plenty of organic growth and a new name and bigger footprint, the bank has grown into the biggest locally owned bank in Southeast Tennessee with assets topping $1 billion this year. Steele, who joined the bank as a young loan assistant in Chattanooga, has risen through the ranks to become president, CEO and chairman of the holding company for the bank now known as First Volunteer Bank.
Read the rest of the article at the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.
