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SOUTHERN MISSOURI BANCORP ANNOUNCES UPDATE TO ITS EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
Poplar Bluff, Missouri, March 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMBC), the parent corporation of Southern Bank, today
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[{"type":"text","content":"Poplar Bluff, Missouri, March 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMBC), the parent corporation of Southern Bank, today announced an update to its executive leadership team. On March 27, 2025, the Boards of Directors of Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) and its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Southern Bank (the “Bank”) appointed Justin G. Cox to the newly-created position of Chief Banking Officer, to be effective as of May 1, 2025. Mr. Cox currently serves as the west region’s Regional President for the Company and the Bank, and he will remain an Executive Vice President of the Company and the Bank. The Board of Directors is implementing this change after assessing recommendations included in a recent process improvement project conducted for Southern Bank by a community banking consulting firm for the purposes of improving customer engagement, team member satisfaction, and organizational profitability. “We believe this structure will improve our organization, as we align our customer engagement leadership under a single executive who will devote his full attention to ensuring that business development and customer experience efforts are consistently performed well across our organization,” noted Chairman Greg A. Steffens. “Justin has been successful over many years with Southern Bank, leading our west region team as it has grown our loan and deposit business there. That background provides an excellent basis for him to take on this new role. Our team and our customers can look forward to a better-unified customer engagement process with his new role,” added President and Chief Administrative Officer Matthew T. Funke. Mr. Cox has 22 years of experience in the banking industry, including 15 years with the Company. After joining Southern Bank as a lending officer in 2010, he advanced quickly to leadership roles of Community Bank President and later, Regional President. Mr. Cox holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration-Marketing & Management from Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Missouri. Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc., is a Missouri corporation organized in 1994 to become the parent company of Southern Bank. Southern Bank was originally chartered in 1887 as a mutually-owned Missouri savings and loan association. In 2004, the Bank converted from a Missouri-cha...