Renasant Announces 2010 Board of Directors Election Results - Jill Deer Newly Elected to Renasant Boards

TUPELO, Miss., April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the Annual Shareholders Meeting of Renasant Corporation held on April 20, 2010, Renasant shareholders re-elected the follow individuals to serve three-year terms as Class 2 directors on its corporate and bank boards:  John M. Creekmore of Amory, MS, Neal A. Holland, Jr. of Decatur, AL, E. Robinson McGraw of Tupelo, MS, Theodore S. Moll of Tupelo, MS and J. Larry Young of Pontotoc, MS.  Brief bios of each director can be found at www.renasant.com.

Also at the meeting, Renasant's shareholders elected Jill V. Deer of Birmingham, AL to serve a three-year term as a new Class 2 director on its corporate and bank boards.  She replaces H. Joe Trulove of West Point, MS who reached mandatory retirement age for service on the boards.

Deer serves as a principal of Bayer Properties, LLC, a full service real estate company based in Birmingham, Alabama that develops and manages commercial real estate. She joined Bayer in 1999 to serve as executive officer and general counsel of the company.  Prior to Bayer, she was a Partner with Burr & Forman LLP, a large regional law firm in Birmingham, practicing in the area of commercial real estate finance. She had formerly served as a member of the Renasant Bank of Alabama State Board.

"We congratulate Mrs. Jill Deer on her election to our corporate and bank boards and welcome her leadership as a new board member," said Renasant Chairman and CEO E. Robinson McGraw.  "Mrs. Deer has a distinguished career and her legal and professional experience will give the Board an additional resource in understanding the risks and trends associated with commercial and residential real estate."

Beyond her professional duties, Deer serves her community as a Board Member of the McWane Science Center, and the Independent Presbyterian Church Foundation.  She has previously served on the Boards of the Bell Center for Early Intervention and Girls, Inc. of Central Alabama, and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alabama School of Law.  Deer received both her juris doctorate and bachelor of accounting from the University of Alabama.

ABOUT RENASANT CORPORATION:

Renasant Corporation is the parent of Renasant Bank and Renasant Insurance, has assets of approximately $3.6 billion, and operates over 65 banking, mortgage, financial services and insurance offices in Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. For more information please visit www.renasantbank.com.

SOURCE Renasant Corporation