The Board of Directors of Hills Bancorporation and Hills Bank and Trust Company have appointed Lisa Shileny as president and CEO of both organizations. As announced in a release from Hills, her appointment will take effect on Jan. 1, 2025.Â
Ms. Shileny currently serves as president and chief operating officer (COO) of the bank. She was appointed COO in December 2021 and became president in November 2022. In April 2023, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the company and the bank, the release states.
Ms. Shileny has worked at Hills Bank since 2005, holding various leadership roles, including senior vice president and general counsel from 2015 to 2017, senior vice president and director of operations from 2017 to 2019, and senior vice president and director of administration from 2019 until her appointment as COO.
Ms. Shileny began her career in private legal practice at Stanley, Lande, and Hunter after earning a Bachelor of Arts from Central College in 1998 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2002. She is also a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin and the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Pennsylvania.Â
Shileny serves on the Board of Directors of Greater Iowa City, Inc., and is a past chairperson of the Board of Directors of Goodwill of the Heartland.
Current President and CEO Dwight Seegmiller will transition to a management advisory role also beginning on Jan. 1, 2025, until his retirement in April 2025. Mr. Seegmiller, who has been with the bank for 49 years and served as president and CEO for more than 38 years, has overseen the bank’s growth from $220 million in total assets in 1986 to over $4.3 billion.Â
He will remain on the Board of Directors of the company and the bank until his term expires in April 2025. As stated in the release, the Board of Directors expressed its gratitude to Mr. Seegmiller for his decades of leadership as part of the planned management succession.