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William B.
(Bill) Nelms is the Memphis Division President for
BancorpSouth with responsibility for the Bartlett, Wolfchase,
Collierville, Germantown and East Memphis branches. A Vaiden,
Mississippi native he is a graduate of Holmes Community
College and majored in personnel management and general
business at Mississippi State University. He is a graduate
of School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State
University, the Mississippi School of Banking and the
Tennessee Bankers Commercial Lending School.
He is past president and
director of the Senatobia Chamber of Commerce, past
president and director of the Senatobia Rotary Club, has
served as chairman of the advisory committee of the Tate
County Extension Service and advisory committee member of
the Northwest Mississippi Community College School of
Business.
He has been a director and president of the Tate County
Industrial Development Authority, treasurer of the Tate
County Health Association, and chairman of the community
advisory board of directors of Senatobia Community Hospital.
He has served on the advisory board of the North Delta
Planning and Development District, was vice chairman of the
Private Industry Council for the Mississippi service
delivery area and a director of the Mississippi Economic
Council.
He is presently a member of
the Memphis Downtown Rotary Club, and is a recipient of the
Paul Harris Fellowship Award. He joined the Chamber Board of
Directors in January 2002 and currently serves as the Vice
Chairman of Economic Development.
He and his wife Sandra have
two daughters. |
