Amazing Outside Directors 2025: Jack Hillstrom

Jack and Jane Hillstrom

Jack Hillstrom is the unofficial historian for Premier Bank, Maplewood, Minn., and Premier Bank Minnesota, Hastings. The 88-year-old director recently commemorated 72 years in the banking industry, and 50 years with the Premier Banks organization. [Continue]

Outstanding Women 2024: Jacqueline Ruge-Perkins

Jackie Ruge-Perkins

From the same office her grandmother once occupied, Jacqueline Ruge-Perkins, president and CEO of First State Bank of Porter, Ind., embodies the spirit of the bank’s one-time matriarch, leading with the belief that what’s good for the community is good for the $160 million bank.   [Continue]