Our 100 year tradition
As part of a 100-year-old family banking tradition, Tennessee Bank & Trust is proud of its association with parent bank Farmers Bank & Trust and its long-standing tradition of service and respect.
Since 1908, Farmers Bank & Trust has remained committed to using time-honored principles that create lasting relationships with clients. As a family-owned community bank with over 100 years of proven financial strength and stability, Farmers Bank & Trust offers clients the confidence and security they deserve.
In banking, we believe an organization's size is not always the best measure of success. That is why our approach to relationships, lending practices, and overall banking stategy has always focused on quality rather than quantity. By providing unparalleled service to a select clientele, our banking solutions are comprehensive and tailored to each client's unique situation.
This proven strategy has helped lay the foundation for the security and trust valued by clients of Tennessee Bank & Trust.
About Us
Tennessee Bank & Trust is a privately-held community bank offering comprehensive wealth management, private banking and trust services to clients in both Williamson and Davidson Counties.
In 2003, Tennessee Bank & Trust opened its first branch on Carothers Parkway in Franklin. Three years later, the bank opened its second branch location in Green Hills, just south of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Executive Bios
GAYLON LAWRENCE, JR.
Vice Chairman
Gaylon carries on a long tradition of banking that goes back to 1908 with family-owned Farmers Bank & Trust in Blytheville, Arkansas. He has been involved in banking on a variety of levels since 1984. He also maintains interests in the family's Mississippi and Missouri agricultural operations. In 2003, he moved to Tennessee with plans to start Tennessee Bank & Trust because of Middle Tennessee's exceptional business climate.
"I wanted to create a different kind of bank for Middle Tennessee. A bank where the people we employed, the environment we built and the customer service we offered was not found anywhere else. I'm proud to say we've built that kind of bank."
STEVE BELL
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Bell began his banking career in 1973 with Piggott State Bank in Piggott, Arkansas. He attended Arkansas State University and is a graduate of the Banking School of the South at Louisiana State University. In 1983, he was hired by Farmers Bank & Trust in Blytheville, Arkansas as Vice President of Operations. Over the last 20 years, Steve has held various leadership positions at Farmers Bank and in 1998, he was named President and COO. In 2003, Steve relocated to Franklin, TN, to begin start-up operations for Tennessee Bank & Trust. In January 2006, he was named Chairman and CEO of the parent company. Steve is a member of the Franklin Business Leadership Council and a 2006 graduate of Leadership Franklin.
TIM BARNHILL
President, Williamson County
Tim Barnhill, a native son to Williamson County, grew up on the family farm in the Pinewood community of western Williamson County, graduating from Fairview High School in 1973. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1976 and began as an Agri-production/farmland lender. In 1986, he joined Union Planters Bank in Memphis as a Correspondent Commercial Loan Officer, traveling and calling on banks in Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana. In 1989 he joined Community Bank Group of Union Planters Corporation (UPC) as President and CEO of Pickett County Bank in Byrdstown; DeKalb County Bank in Smithville; and finally, in 1995, Central State Bank in Lexington, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of UPC. In June 2004 he accepted what he phrased as "the opportunity of a lifetime" to come back home to Williamson County and become involved in the newly formed Tennessee Bank & Trust in Franklin, overseeing the new Commercial Lending department. He was named President of the Williamson County market in January, 2006. Tim is a member of the Franklin-Williamson County Chamber of Commerce and in his spare time, works on his Williamson County farm that has been in his family since the 1840s. Tim is a graduate of Tennessee School of Banking and the Graduate School of Banking of the South at LSU.
DAN ANDREWS, JR.
President, Nashville Market
A native of Dickson, TN, Dan graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1979. He began his banking career with Nashville City Bank & Trust. He went on to serve as Vice President of Commerce Union Bank in their Regional Middle Market Corporate Lending area. In 1988, AmSouth asked Dan to start its corporate loan office in Nashville. He headed up that division as Senior Vice-President until 1999 when he bought Crown Tent & Awning. In 2005, he was asked to return to the banking world as Executive Vice President of Tennessee Bank & Trust. In 2006, he oversaw the renovation and construction of the new Green Hills site of Tennessee Bank & Trust in the former Davis-Kidd Booksellers location. Dan was named President of the Nashville Market in 2006.
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