Derek Williams Concludes His Term as Chair or ICBA

The future of the community banking industry is safe, secure, and well represented, outgoing ICBA Chairman Derek Williams, President & CEO, Century Bank & Trust, Milledgeville, said at ICBA LIVE 2024. Williams, who serves on CBA’s Board of Directors, is the first ICBA Chair from Georgia to serve in over 40 years.

Williams said he intended to spend his year as chairman as a quiet source of encouragement for community bankers dealing with regulatory burdens and system inequities. “But you know the most humbling part of my year as ICBA chairman?” he said, “I found that I’m the one who’s been encouraged.”

“Community banking is here for good,” Williams said, “both in the sustainability of the relationship banking model and in the passion and the energy that community bankers give back to their communities. We’re blessed to be supported and protected by each other and by a passionate and committed ICBA, whose one mission is and always will be community banks.”