Ms. Brooks is the Vice President and financial operations manager for McLane Transport, Inc. She has held that position since 1997. In that capacity, her duties include financial statement preparation and analysis, budgeting, oversight of the firm s payroll, payables, and receivables functions, and tax management. She was previously employed in healthcare administration and served as president of a small hospital employee credit union. That institution merged with Maxwell-Gunter Federal Credit Union, where she served on the board of directors for five years. Ms. Brooks provides expertise to the Board of Directors in the evaluation of transportation and other service industry borrowers. Having been a credit union executive and director, Ms. Brooks background provides an understanding of consumer credit and regulatory oversight of financial institutions. Ms. Brooks has been a director of Southern Missouri Bancorp and Southern Bank since 2004.