GREENVILLE — Second National Bank has announced that Brent Dawson has been hired as a commercial/ag lender and will work from the Celina office in Mercer County.

Dawson began his banking career in 1994, holding positions of branch manager, consumer and mortgage lender and commercial/ag lender and brings 24 years of banking and lending experience to SNB. He is an honors graduate of Xavier University with a Bachelor of Arts in economics, and holds Ohio Bankers League certificates in commercial lending and credit analysis. He lives in Lima.

Headquartered in Greenville, Second National Bank is part of the Park National Corp., a group of community banks based in Ohio. Second National was originally chartered in July 1883 and has eight offices in Greenville, Arcanum, Versailles, Fort Recovery and Celina.