Sioux City, Iowa-based Security National Bank has named Jeremy Craighead as its next president.
The bank’s board of directors finalized Craighead’s selection during its January meeting. The bank’s chief financial officer, Jeremy Uhl, will replace Craighead as executive vice president. Craighead succeeds D. Douglas Rice, who will continue as board chair and the bank’s CEO. He is only the bank’s 14th president — seventh in the past 86 years — since SNB was founded in 1884.
“Jeremy Craighead and Jeremy Uhl are outstanding professionals in every regard, and perfectly positioned to build on the legacy of customer service that has been established at Security National Bank,” said Rice, whose own SNB career spans 51 years. “Their combination of financial expertise, leadership and devotion to our community will guide our bank and ensure our continued stability, growth and success well into the future.”
After graduating from the University of Northern Iowa in 2001, Craighead started his career as a personal banker, quickly rising through the ranks at Security National. While working at SNB, he also graduated from the Iowa School of Banking and the Graduate School of Banking in Boulder, Colo. He has been promoted several times at SNB, including to personal banking center manager, retail banking officer, assistant VP, VP of retail banking services, Bank Secrecy Act officer and executive VP.
Uhl, a CPA, joined Security National Bank in 2014 as VP of finance. A Sioux City native, he received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame. Following college graduation, he began his accounting career in Minneapolis at Pricewatercoopers, LLP, before returning to Sioux Falls to join King, Reinsch, Prosser & Co., LLP. as a partner.