OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MISSOURI INDEPENDENT BANKERS ASSOCIATION

Pub. 1 2021 Issue 6

Kyle-Williams

A Background on … L. Kyle Williams

By high school, L. Kyle Williams had developed an interest in accounting and business classes and planned to attend Missouri State (formerly Southwest Missouri State University). The Cassville, Missouri, branch of Commerce Bank offered a scholarship to a local high school senior every year, and Kyle filled out an application during his senior year. The bank chose him as the recipient in the spring of 1992. Jon Horner, who was vice president

of commercial lending at Commerce Bank, offered Kyle the scholarship and a summer job as a teller.

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