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Board of Directors

W. Scott McGeorge

Year First Elected to Board: 2005
Tenure: 17 years
Age: 79

 

Professional Experience

Mr. McGeorge is the senior member of a group of McGeorge and McGeorge - Dickinson family owned companies that include Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co., McGeorge Contracting Co., Inc., and Cornerstone Farm and Gin Co. where he serves as Chairman, Chairman, and Vice President, respectively. The companies perform marine construction in a multistate regional area, build highways and similar projects, mine various minerals and produce and sell stone products, asphalt pavement and sand. Cornerstone is engaged in farming operations. Mr. McGeorge previously served on the board of directors of National Bancshares Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary National Bank of Commerce of Pine Bluff during the mid-1980s before it was purchased by Boatmen’s Bank. He was on the commercial and industrial loan committee, which approved the largest loans made by the bank.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (Business Administration), University of Arkansas
  • Graduate of U.S. Coast Guard Officer Candidate School

Experience and Qualifications

  • National Stone Sand and Gravel Association (past Secretary and current board member)
  • Dredging Contractors of America (former board member)
  • Mississippi Valley Associated General Contractors (past President and former board member)
  • Trinity Foundation (President)
  • Economic Development Corporation of Jefferson County (Chairman)
  • U.S. Coast Guard (officer)

Biographical information regarding directors is based on, and also as of, Simmons First National Corporation’s latest proxy statement filed on March 14, 2023.