The board of F & M Bank Corp. has hired Mark Hanna as president of subsidiary Farmers & Merchants Bank.
Hanna joins from Eastern Virginia Bankshares Inc., where he had been Tidewater regional president. Eastern was acquired by Southern National Bancorp of Virginia Inc.
Timberville, Va.-based F & M disclosed in June that President and CEO Dean Withers would retire "within the next 12 months." Withers is staying on for a transition period as CEO of both the company and bank.
