In addition, the company has named Trent Swearengin as CEO and president of First Financial Bank, Eastland, Texas, US, replacing O’Neil.
O’Neil will join the existing management team comprised of Matt Reynolds, president and Craig Beskow, executive vice president and cashier.
Since 2009, O’Neil has been president of First Financial Bank, Eastland.
He joined First Financial as a commercial lender and senior vice president in 1998 and was named executive vice president and branch manager of the River Oaks bank location in Abilene in June 2002.
Swearengin joined First Financial Bank of Abilene as a management trainee in 1999 and was promoted to assistant branch manager in 2000.
He then became a credit analyst for the parent company and was promoted to vice president of commercial loans with First Financial Bank, Southlake in 2001.
Swearengin was promoted to senior vice president of the Southlake bank in 2007 and was elected executive vice president of the Eastland bank earlier this year.
