Birmingham, Alabama-based Regions Bank announced that Michael Pardue will serve as consumer banking executive leading the company’s expanded operations in Texas, including the Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin markets.

Pardue, a financial services industry veteran of 20 years, makes the move to Texas from Memphis, Tennessee, where he served as Regions Bank’s consumer banking executive for the Mid-South territory. He began his banking career in the branch with Regions Bank’s predecessor bank, Union Planters, earning promotions to financial relationship consultant, retail manager and consumer banking manager positions before accepting the Mid-South consumer leadership role in 2015. Pardue’s previous Mid-South consumer leadership role involved overseeing branch teams in Memphis and throughout West Tennessee, Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, Southeast Missouri, Northeast Arkansas and North Mississippi. He is a nine-time Regions Chairman’s Club Award recipient, an honor recognizing the bank’s top bank performers.

Pardue earned a BBA degree in finance from the University of Tennessee. He is a graduate of Leadership Memphis and serves as a member of the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South board of directors and led Regions Bank’s Mid-South United Way associate giving campaign in 2020. Pardue actively volunteers with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

“Michael’s two decades of experience working in and with our branches have given him especially valuable insights into understanding the needs of customers and exceeding their expectations,” says Steve Nivet, consumer banking regional executive. “He focuses our teams on consistently evolving how we serve our clients as relationship bankers who deliver customized service rather than merely facilitate transactions.”

Regions Bank has built or renovated dozens of branches in Texas in recent years. Its most recent branch investments include Houston-area locations in The Woodlands and Egypt-Magnolia. Next up is Windsong Ranch in the Dallas area, scheduled to open before year’s end. Pardue’s new role is part of a territory realignment designed to provide an exclusive consumer banking leadership focus on Texas-specific branches in Houston, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and additional community markets. Pardue succeeds Earl Connell, who recently was named consumer banking executive for Regions Bank in the company’s growing Central and East Florida markets.

Established in 1928,  Regions Bank operates more than 1,300 banking offices in the South, Midwest and Texas.