Financial Elder Abuse

Scott Dueser has been with the First Financial family for more than 42 years, starting as a management trainee in 1976 with First National Bank of Abilene (now First Financial Bank, N.A.). He served as President and CEO of First Financial Bank Abilene from 1991-2001 and was named President and CEO of First Financial in 2001. Mr. Dueser became Chairman of the Board effective January 1, 2008. His banking career began in 1971, as a bookkeeper for First National Bank in Breckenridge, Texas while attending college. He also worked as a teller at Plains National Bank in Lubbock, Texas while still in school. Following his graduation, Mr. Dueser became an assistant bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas.

Education

Mr. Dueser earned his BBA in finance and BBA in accounting from Texas Tech University in 1975. He graduated from the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University in 1981.

Activities

Mr. Dueser serves on Boards of Texas Tech Alumni Association, American Bankers Association Foundation, and Texas Tech University Free Market Institute, and he is chairman of the Board of the United Way of Abilene Foundation. Mr. Dueser has previously served as the chairman of the Texas Tech University Board of Regents, the Texas Bankers Association, TBA’s BankPac, United Way of Abilene, the Cisco College Advisory Board and Day Nursery of Abilene. He has previously served on boards of the Texas Tech University Foundation, the American Bankers Association, Abilene Industrial Foundation, Abilene Boy’s Ranch Foundation and the Cisco College Advisory Board.