Mandy Fielder, EVP/CFO of First Heritage Bank-Shenandoah/Farragut, recently graduated from the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC), a banking school which provides management and leadership training for community-banking professionals. Fielder was among 159 graduates of the 66th Annual School Session, hosted July 17-29 on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Graduates receive a diploma upon successfully completing six weeks of classroom training which focuses on the areas of general management, lending, leadership and human-resource management and financial management in banks. Requirements for graduation also include comprehensive examinations, intersession research projects and participation in a bank-management simulation course designed to provide students with exper­ience managing a bank.
Mandy has been with First Heritage Bank for 18 years. She is a Tarkio High School graduate and the daughter of Gene and Roxanne Southard of Tarkio.