St. Louis Fed Adds J.B. Hunt CEO To Board

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On the heels of its announcement for the Little Rock board of directors, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank board added a little more Arkansas flair.

John N. Roberts, III, president and CEO of Lowell-based J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, was appointed to a three-year term on the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors.

Already serving on the St. Louis board are Sonja Yates Hubbard, CEO of E-Z Mart Stores Inc. in Texarkana and Cal McCastlain, partner at Dover Dixon Horne PLLC law firm in Little Rock.

Other appointees announced by the Fed to its St. Louis board are:

  • George Paz, chairman and CEO of Express Scripts, Inc. in St. Louis, who was named chairman of the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors.
  • Rakesh Sachdev, president and CEO of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation in St. Louis, was reappointed as a director of the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors, for a three-year term, and named deputy chair of the board.
  • Kathleen M. Mazzarella, chairman, president and CEO of Graybar Electric Company in St. Louis, was appointed to a three-year term on the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors.
  • Susan S. Stephenson, co-chairman and president of Independent Bank in Memphis, was re-elected to a second three-year term on the St. Louis Fed’s board of directors.