Reidsville Bank
Welcomes Two Community Leaders to the Board of Directors
REIDSVILLE, N.C. - (January 6, 2010) Bill Griffith, the market
president of Reidsville Community Bank, a division of First Carolina State Bank,
is pleased to announce that Matthew Smith, a partner in the Rockingham County law
firm of Maddrey Etringer Smith and Hollowell, and Gregory Hopkins, the pastor of
Red Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Reidsville, have joined the bank’s board of
directors.
An attorney since 1998, Smith’s practice focuses in the areas of real estate, corporations,
banking collections, estates, foreclosures and civil litigation. His law firm handles
all types of legal matters for the citizens of Rockingham County. He earned a bachelor’s
degree and his law degree at Campbell University.
Hopkins was born and raised in Reidsville and has been a pastor for 21 years. He
is the president of the Ministerial Alliance of Reidsville and Vicinity and the
owner of Vision Adolescence Care. He is a graduate of Winston-Salem State University.
Reidsville Community Bank,
founded in 2008, is a division of First Carolina State
Bank, a state-chartered commercial bank based in Rocky Mount, N.C. First Carolina
State Bank also has a full-service office in Tarboro, N.C., and a loan production
office in Greenville, N.C. First Carolina State Bank is an affiliate of Capitol
Bancorp, a $5.4 billion bank holding company based in Lansing, Mich.