JESSICA CARROLL
“I’m everywhere these days,” laughed the CEO
of New Washington State Bank. At the young age
of 41, the dynamic executive is on a fast track to
success and service in Southern Indiana.
Banking is in the Indiana native’s blood. Carroll,
who grew up in New Washington, graduated
from Hanover College with a degree in business
administration and set her sights on an accounting
career. As a college student, she took a job with
New Washington State Bank in 1998 and found
her home.
New Washington Sate Bank was founded in 1908
to serve surrounding farm communities. Over
the years, branches were added in Henryville,
Charlestown, Borden, Jeffersonville, Sellersburg,
Scottsburg and River Ridge. A new branch in New
Albany will open soon.
“I worked in the bookkeeping department
while I was in school, and once I graduated, I
worked as an assistant to the controller,” she said.
“I number crunched until 2007 and then became
a risk officer and moved into lending.”
Fateful timing put her entrance to lending right
at the economic downturn, but that didn’t deter
Carroll. “It was an enormous education,” she said,
“I learned how a bank worked from the inside
out and learned how to work with customers.”
As she rose through the ranks, bank officials
took notice and encouraged her growth, with
an eye toward guiding Carroll into the bank’s
succession planning.
“When I moved to the risk officer position, and
later, as COO, I got to work with real estate sales,
appraisals and helped develop policy and lending
compliance,” she explained. “I was in the right
spot at the right time to get the right experience.
I had a great mentor in our past president, Pat
Glotzbach, who took me under his wing and
taught me.”
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