For immediate release: January 10, 2023
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta announces the appointment of Missy Rogers to the New Orleans Branch board of directors. She was appointed by the Board of Governors to a three-year term beginning January 1, 2023, and ending December 31, 2025.
Rogers is president and founder of Noble Plastics in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. She serves on the Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Council at Louisiana State University. Rogers is a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
The other directors of the Atlanta Fed's New Orleans Branch are:
- John D. Driscoll, director and CEO of the Alabama State Port Authority in Mobile, Alabama (term expires December 31, 2024),
- Katherine A. Crosby, board chair of Fidelity Bank in New Orleans, Louisiana (term expires December 31, 2024),
- David T. Darragh, CEO of Pod Pack International and operating partner of LongueVue Capital in Metairie, Louisiana (term expires December 31, 2024),
- Michael E. Hicks Jr., president and CEO of Hixardt Technologies Inc. in Pensacola, Florida (term expires December 31, 2023), and
- William G. Yates III, president and CEO of W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company and the Yates Companies Inc., in Biloxi, Mississippi (term expires December 31, 2023).
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta branch directors provide economic information from their industries and the branch territory to the district Bank's president and head office directors, who use the information in discussing monetary policy options and making discount rate recommendations. The Board of Governors appoints three of the New Orleans Branch directors, and the Atlanta head office directors appoint four.