John Lancaster Email & Phone Number

A native of Lebanon, Tennessee, John R. Lancaster is Chairman and C.E.O. of First Freedom Bank, a community bank headquartered in Wilson County. Lancaster was instrumental in organizing a group of investors to form First Freedom in 2006. Prior to the organization of First Freedom, he served as Wilson County Chairman with SunTrust Bank/National Bank of Commerce. Lancaster graduated from Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon. He earned a B.S. in business administration, with honors, at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, and a MBA from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville. Additionally, Lancaster is an alumnus of The Graduate School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University, the Tennessee Commercial Lending School and the Southeastern School of Advanced Commercial Lending, both at Vanderbilt University. Active in community affairs, Lancaster has served as Board Chairman and Campaign Chairman for United Way of Wilson County and a board member of the United Ways of Middle Tennessee. He has served as chairman of the Lebanon Wilson County Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Greater Lebanon Regional Planning Commission, president of Main Street Lebanon, Inc., president of the Wilson County Adult Reading Council, and as an instructor for Junior Achievement through Lebanon High School. A graduate of Leadership Wilson and Leadership Middle Tennessee, Lancaster has also served on the board of the Wilson County Heart Association, the Joint Economic and Community Development Board of Wilson County and the Board of the Independent Bankers Division of the Tennessee Bankers Association (TBA). He currently serves on the Board of Financial Products & Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the TBA. He has been named a Power Leader in Banking by the Nashville Business Journal, and is a recipient of the Wilson County Impact Award, which honors citizens who are leading the charge for improvements and economic development in Wilson County.

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