Austin Bank Promotes Scott Haygood to Vice President of Gilmer Office
March, 2008

Austin Bank Vice Chairman Jeff Austin, III recently announced the career promotion of Scott Haygood to Vice President.

Haygood, Location President of the Austin Bank Gilmer office, joined Austin Bank five years ago and was assigned to the bank’s Loan Division. He was a Credit Analyst for almost seven months before being promoted to Loan Review/Compliance Analyst and then to Location President of the Gilmer office in June 2007. Prior to his
banking career, Haygood worked as a consultant at several industrial facilities while employed at AVIA Environment, LLC.

Haygood earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Tyler and Bachelor of Science from Stephen F. Austin State University. Following graduation from Pine Tree High School in Longview, Haygood received an Associates of Science degree from Kilgore College. He has also completed several Texas
Bankers Association classes.

Active in the East Texas area, Haygood has been involved with the East Texas Golf Association, Special Olympics, Boy’s Ranch of Nacogdoches, East Texas Rural Grant Project, Gregg County Ducks Unlimited and mentoring for elementary school children in Longview School District. A resident of Longview, Scott and his wife, Ami, have a nine month son, Collin.

Austin Bank, a community bank with headquarters in Jacksonville, Texas, has in excess of $1 billion in assets with 28 offices in nine counties throughout East Texas. 


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