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Calder Bank & Trust
Est. 1913

Board of Directors

The board of directors of Calder Financial Corporation also serves as the board of Calder Bank & Trust, N.A. All directors other than the Chief Executive Officer are independent under the standards the board has adopted.

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Harlan W. Prewitt

Chairman of the Board

President of Prewitt Materials Company, a family owned aggregates and ready mix concrete business operating in southeast Tennessee and north Georgia. He joined the board in 2003, chaired the compensation committee from 2011 to 2018, and was elected Chairman in 2018 on the retirement of R. Wallace Calder. He chairs the nominating and corporate governance committee and remains a member of the compensation and human resources committee. He is a past chairman of the Hamilton County industrial development board.

Director since 2003. Chairman since 2018.
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Cornelia "Nell" Whitfield

Vice Chair of the Board

Owner and chief executive of Whitfield Orchards and Cold Storage, an agricultural producer and cold chain operator headquartered in Bradley County, Tennessee. She chairs the compensation and human resources committee, a role she took over from the Chairman of the Board in 2018, and she also serves on the nominating and corporate governance committee.

Director since 2008.
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Ellis R. Vandergriff

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer

President and Chief Executive Officer of Calder Bank & Trust, N.A. and Calder Financial Corporation. He is the only member of management who serves on the board and does not sit on the audit, risk or compensation committees.

Director since 2016.
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Marcus Teague

Director, Chair of the Audit Committee

Managing partner of Teague & Doss CPAs, PLLC in Chattanooga, where he has practiced public accounting for 26 years with a concentration in closely held manufacturing and construction companies. He is the board designated audit committee financial expert and also serves on the risk committee.

Director since 2012.
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Samuel A. Hargis

Director, Chair of the Risk Committee

Retired national bank examiner. He spent 28 years with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the last nine as an examiner in charge for community and mid-size national banks in the Southeast. He chairs the risk committee and serves on the audit committee.

Director since 2019.
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Lorraine Deaton-Mays

Director, Chair of the Technology Committee

Retired chief information officer of a payments processing company, where she spent 11 years and led the company through two platform consolidations. She was elected to the board in March 2025 and chairs the technology committee, which reviews the bank's technology strategy and information security program with the Chief Information Security Officer each quarter.

Director since 2025.
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Everett Ozuna

Director

Founder and chief executive of Ozuna Logistics Group, a truckload and dedicated fleet carrier headquartered in Chattanooga with terminals in Nashville, Dalton and Huntsville. He built the company from a single tractor in 1991 and it now employs more than 600 drivers. He serves on the compensation and human resources committee and on the technology committee, and he has been a commercial client of the bank longer than he has been a director.

Director since 2014.
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Priscilla Mabry-Tanner

Director

Partner in a Chattanooga law firm, where she practices commercial real estate and health care regulatory law and leads the firm's transactions group. She was a member of the Tennessee Bar Association board of governors and has taught a seminar on fiduciary duty at a regional law school. She serves on the risk committee and on the nominating and corporate governance committee.

Director since 2017.
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Dr. Imani Sowell-Brantley

Director

Chief medical officer of a regional health system operating hospitals and clinics across southeast Tennessee and north Georgia. She practiced internal medicine for 14 years before moving into administration and now oversees clinical operations for a system with roughly 5,200 employees. She serves on the compensation and human resources committee, the technology committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee.

Director since 2020.
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Weldon T. Crigger

Director

Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Highland Ridge Bank of Scottsboro, which Calder acquired in 2021. He led that bank for 16 years and joined the Calder board at the closing of the transaction, where he represents the north Alabama market. He serves on the audit committee and the risk committee and is the director most often asked what a deposit franchise is actually worth.

Director since 2021.
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Beatriz Sandoval-Kerr

Director

Vice chancellor for finance and administration at a public university in the bank's Tennessee market, where she is responsible for the budget, treasury, procurement and auxiliary enterprises. She spent 12 years in public finance and municipal advisory work before moving into higher education administration. She serves on the audit committee and the technology committee.

Director since 2022.

Standing Committees

CommitteeChairMembersResponsibility
AuditMarcus TeagueSamuel A. Hargis, Weldon T. Crigger, Beatriz Sandoval-KerrFinancial reporting, internal audit, external audit and the annual independent BSA review.
RiskSamuel A. HargisMarcus Teague, Weldon T. Crigger, Priscilla Mabry-TannerEnterprise risk appetite, credit concentration, compliance and financial crimes, and third party risk reporting.
TechnologyLorraine Deaton-MaysEverett Ozuna, Dr. Imani Sowell-Brantley, Beatriz Sandoval-KerrTechnology strategy and the information security program, reviewed with the Chief Information Security Officer each quarter.
Compensation and Human ResourcesCornelia WhitfieldHarlan W. Prewitt, Everett Ozuna, Dr. Imani Sowell-BrantleyExecutive compensation, incentive plan risk review and succession planning.
Nominating and Corporate GovernanceHarlan W. PrewittCornelia Whitfield, Priscilla Mabry-Tanner, Dr. Imani Sowell-BrantleyBoard composition, director independence and governance policy.

The Chief Executive Officer is the only member of management who serves as a director and sits on no standing committee. Each committee meets at least quarterly and reports to the full board. Directors serve three-year terms in three classes, so roughly a third of the board stands for election at each annual meeting of shareholders.

Chairman Emeritus

R. Wallace Calder, great-grandson of the founder, served as Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 2016 and as Chairman of the Board until 2018. He holds no current board or executive position.

Communicating with the board

Shareholders and other interested parties may write to the non-management directors care of the Corporate Secretary, Calder Financial Corporation, 401 Market Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402. Correspondence is forwarded to the Chairman of the Board without screening by management, other than for security handling of packages.