Darrin Williams, CEO, Southern Bancorp, named among the Top Ten Leaders in Arkansas
Arkansas Money & Politics magazine has listed Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, among the Top Ten Leaders in Arkansas.
Southern Bancorp is a community development financial institution formed 30 years ago that now has 56 branches throughout the mid-South. Based on Chicago’s ShoreBank, Southern Bancorp was formed to assist people in underserved areas that were often redlined, a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from minorities. Williams said the bank’s early work took place in primarily African American communities in the Delta.
“It was truly Southern’s mission that got me into banking,” Williams said. “Our work really focuses on serving the people that have been underserved, the communities that have been underserved from a financial standpoint, and it was the mission of Southern that led me to Southern.”