Perry Ginn, Regional Market president for Tarrant and Johnson County at American National Bank of Texas (ANBTX), one of the oldest and largest independently owned banks in the state, was recently awarded Tarrant County Bankers Association's 2024 Banker of the Year, the bank said.

Ginn, who has more than four decades of banking experience, including more than 20 years with ANBTX, is the first ANBTX team member to win the distinguished award.

Ginn first joined the bank in 2004 as a regional market president for Hunt County, a role he spent two years in before being appointed to Regional Market president for Tarrant and Johnson County in 2006.

Since then, Ginn has helped the bank expand its footprint across Tarrant and Johnson County from one loan production office in Burleson to four locations in Burleson, Fort Worth, Mansfield and Hurst.

Ginn earned his bachelor of business administration degree in finance from the University of Texas at Arlington and a graduate degree from the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University.

Ginn was formally recognized during TCBA's Banker of the Year luncheon at the River Crest Country Club in Fort Worth on Dec. 12.

American National Bank of Texas, founded in 1875 in Terrell, Texas, is an independently owned bank with assets over USD 6bn and 30 locations throughout North Texas, serving Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Rockwall, Tarrant, and Van Zandt Counties.

As a community bank, American National Bank of Texas offers traditional banking products and services to individuals, businesses and municipal governments, as well as individual and corporate trust, investment and estate planning services through their Wealth Management Group.