In mid-November, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce announced that Kerry Hall, former managing director of Dallas-based Texas Capital Bank regional banking and current board member of Dallas-based Susser Bank, has been named “2025 Austinite of the Year,” an award recognizing transformational leadership and enduring service to the Austin region.
“[Hall’s] impact on Austin is deep, enduring and impossible to overstate,” says Mark Ramseur, chair of the chamber board. “Her decades of leadership—across banking, economic development and community service—have shaped the trajectory of our entire region. [She] has always led with purpose, generosity and a relentless commitment to helping businesses thrive.”
With 35-plus years in banking, Hall retired from Texas Capital Bank in 2021 to focus on “corporate board work that would satisfy [her] desire to continue to add value to companies seeking growth with an eye to risk mitigation and an optimal capital structure,” she notes on her LinkedIn page. Hall capped her career as executive managing director of Texas Capital Bank, overseeing regional middle-market banking in Austin, San Antonio and Fort Worth. Prior to that, she was the bank’s Austin market president for 17 years.
After her retirement from the banking industry, Hall served as the interim CEO of the Austin Chamber in 2023 before Jeremy Martin was hired to the role.
The Austin Business Journal notes Hall’s many civic roles: “[She] has dedicated a lot of time to civic organizations throughout Austin and has held board positions for American Heart Association’s Austin chapter, Caritas, Visit Austin, Opportunity Austin, Texas One, YPO Austin, Big Brothers Big Sisters, E3 Alliance and Junior Achievement. She is currently on the board of the Austin Chamber, Austin Area Research Organization, Texas Business Hall of Fame and Texas Alternatives Foundation.” Hall has also served on the Susser Bank board since 2022.
Hall told the Austin Business Journal that she “spent time working with so many different organizations as a way to both make Austin a better place and to build community for herself. She said there are still plenty of issues Austin needs to tackle for its economy and businesses to continue to grow, including investing in education, improving housing affordability, ramping efforts to address homelessness and ensuring the proper infrastructure is in place for a growing population—especially around energy and water as the data center and semiconductor industries grow.”
Read more of Hall’s recent interview with the Austin Business Journal here. (Subscription required.)
Established in 1959, Susser Bank has banking offices in Dallas, Arlington, Austin, Bedford, Corpus Christi, Fort Worth, Garland, Houston, Plano, Round Rock and San Antonio.
