Rick DavisDoug Lawson
Rick DavisDoug Lawson

Planters Bank announces the promotion of Rick Davis to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  Mr. Davis joined Planters in July 2008. Prior to this promotion, Mr. Davis was a Senior Vice President and Controller for the bank. Mr. Davis is a Certified Public Accountant and spent approximately 15 years in public accounting before joining the bank. 

Mr. Davis graduated from Dawson Springs High School in 1989, Murray State University in 1992 with a B.S.B. in accounting and from the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin in 2016. He is a graduate of Leadership Hopkinsville-Christian County. He has been active in a number of charitable organizations over the years and is currently a board member, treasurer and chair of the finance and operations committee for the United Way of the Pennyrile.

Doug Lawson is a veteran banker who recently has been the EVP of Aftermarket with Hutson, Inc. With 25 years of extensive business and banking experience, Mr. Lawson comes to Planters Bank serving in the capacity of Senior Vice President for Ag and Commercial Lending. In his career Mr. Lawson was the Co-Founder of The Kingdom Trust Company, a South Dakota Chartered Trust Co. and previously the Market President of Heritage Bank, Murray, KY. He is currently serving his 13th year as a Board Member of the Kentucky Ag Finance Corporation through the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy. He has also been active in United Way, the Chamber of Commerce, and had multiple opportunities to speak to U.S. and International audiences on various banking and business management topics.

Mr. Lawson has a Masters in Banking and is a graduate of the LSU School of Banking as well as the Kentucky Bankers Association School of Banking. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Murray State University in Agriculture. Mr. Lawson is currently an Adjunct Professor teaching night classes in the Murray State Hutson School of Agriculture.

“We are thrilled with the promotion of Rick Davis to CFO and the addition of Doug Lawson to the Planters Bank team”, said Planters Bank President and CEO Elizabeth McCoy. “With these new bank principals, I am confident Planters Bank will continue to lead the way in the financial services market.’

Planters Bank is an FDIC-insured community bank with assets totaling $983 million as of September 30, 2017. The bank was founded in 1996 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and expanded into neighboring Clarksville, Tennessee in 2002. The bank offers a complete range of consumer and business banking services with three branches in Hopkinsville, KY, five branches in Western Kentucky, as well as four locations and a mortgage office, in Clarksville, TN.