Andrew Trainor, regional president of southern Colorado’s Legacy Bank, has been selected as a 2019 Inductee into the Pueblo (Colo.) Hall of Fame
The project is sponsored by The Pueblo Community College Foundation, which selects inductees from among nominations submitted each year. The Hall of Fame was established to honor individuals who, by their extraordinary efforts, have contributed to the betterment for enhancement of Pueblo.
Personally and professionally, Trainor is a committed supporter of higher education in Pueblo. Through his efforts, Wiley-based Legacy Bank provided a matching grant to start the Return to Earn scholarship program at Pueblo Community College, a program that provides scholarships for students who left PCC before graduation for personal or financial situations but wish to re-enroll and earn their degrees. Students in this program had a 97 percent retention rate and In two years, 113 students graduated from PCC.
He serves on the board of the CSU-Pueblo Foundation, the school from which he graduated. Legacy has provided financing and funding for multiple CSU-Pueblo projects.
He also has served on the board of directors of the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation since 2014 and is its current chairman. He also serves as an elder at Fellowship of the Rockies and has taken the lead role in the development of the Pueblo Del Sol subdivision, which will provide a new site for the church and more than 100 new homes for the Pueblo community.
Trainor noted that personal commitment to community involvement stems from his belief that community is at the core of everything we do and that sharing gifts – whether time, talent or resources – is vital to individual and community growth.
“Being an inductee into the Pueblo Hall of Fame is such an honor,” Trainor said. “Personally and professionally, we try to live by three things – what’s right, what builds up others, and what represents us as a person of faith. To be honored for executing those types of principles is humbling.”
Trainor has been regional president at the $323 million Legacy Bank since 2004 and during that time has led the bank’s expansion from one location to seven in Pueblo, Canon City, Colorado Springs, Lamar and Wiley. He began his banking career in 1981 and is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado, Boulder.