New senior VP joined bank in ’05
Curt Baker
The leaders of Wilson Bank & Trust have promoted longtime lender Curt Baker to senior vice president and named him leader of their home market in Lebanon.
In his new role, Baker will oversee the seven branches Wilson Bank & Trust runs in Lebanon and Watertown and continue to manage his commercial portfolio. Baker began working on the bank, which runs 28 offices in nine area counties, in 2005 and had been a vice president of lending.
“Curt has been an incredible asset to the bank over the years,” President John Foster said. “He has consistently stepped up in any role he has been given and continues to build upon his experience and contribute to the growth of the bank.”
J. Brent Hurd, age 87, passed away at his home in Lebanon on December 27, 2020.
Mr. Hurd was born in Nashville on July 19, 1933. He is preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Barbara Jo Hurd; parents Brown Elliott Hurd and Susan Writesman Hurd; and a sister, Brownie Hurd Freeman.
Mr. Hurd graduated from Donelson High School in 1951. He served in the United States Army as a military policeman. Mr. Hurd graduated from The University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1958 with a degree in Agriculture Economics. Immediately upon graduation he married Barbara Jo Williams and started a 10-year stint managing a Grade A dairy farm. His next venture was spending 16 years with the largest real estate management company in the Southeast as CEO, overseeing 12,000 residential rental units and 300 employees. He founded Hurd Investment Properties, Inc. in 1981 and served the residential and commercial real estate management company as president for the next 9 years and as president of a large Nashvill