Evan Dixon has been named Stock Yards Bank & Trust market president for Western Kentucky and Evansville.
Stock Yards sent out a release Friday afternoon making the announcement that Dixon, who has 14 years of experience as a Henderson banker, would take the role. Dixon replaces Doug Lawson, who took the president position at Peoples Bank of Kentucky in Flemingsburg in September.
In his new role, Dixon will oversee commercial and consumer banking relationships and the bank’s community involvement on both sides of the river, said the release.
In an interview Saturday morning, Dixon said he’s happy for the opportunity.
“I’m excited about the opportunity to lead Stock Yards efforts in the region,” Dixon said, adding that it’s a job that he wants to do in a community he’s raising his family in.
Dixon is married to Henderson Tourist Commission Executive Director Abby Dixon. They have two children.
“This community is home for me, and our clients in Henderson and Evansville are my neighbors,” Dixon said in the release. “I have worked alongside this team for years, and I am proud of the way they show up every day. I am looking forward to building on that as we grow together.”
Banking is also in Dixon’s blood. He was born in Henderson, but moved to Muhlenberg County after the fifth grade when his father, Phillip, took the job of president at First National Bank of Muhlenberg County, Dixon said.
After graduating from Murray State University, Dixon said he was ready to move back to his birthplace. He took a job at the Bank of Henderson in 2012, and has remained with the same company, though with different names because of mergers, since then. In 2015, Field & Main formed, and he spent the bulk of his career under this name until its merger this year with Stock Yards. He also worked alongside his father at F&M that last eight years of the elder Dixon’s career, he said.
He has served as deputy credit officer for Stock Yards Bank & Trust since the conversion. Dixon holds a Bachelor of Science in finance and an MBA from Murray State University.
Stock Yards said the appointment continues the bank’s practice of putting local leadership in each of its markets, and it keeps a familiar face in place for Henderson and Evansville clients following the F&M conversion earlier this year.
“Evan has spent his entire career serving businesses and families in this region, and he knows these communities and our clients well,” said Ja Hillebrand, Chairman & CEO of Stock Yards Bank & Trust, in a prepared statement. “We believe banking works best when decisions are made by people who live and work in the communities they serve. Keeping experienced leaders like Evan in place is how our clients continue to get the relationships and local decision-making they have always counted on.”
Dixon echoed the sentiment about relationships, saying that he’s built relationships both internally at the bank and externally in the community, where he and Abby are always involved. They’ve both dedicated themselves to the community, he said.
“I just love being here and being a part of it,” he said.
One of the questions that the community had when Stock Yards announced the merger earlier this year revolved around if it would support the community as much as F&M had. Stock Yards answered it would and has been a sponsor at many events, including the presenting sponsor at the W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival as F&M had done for years.
Asked if the community support from Stock Yards could even increase, Dixon responded, “The answer to that question is ‘Yes.’ I’m going to do my best to increase that.”
