Ready to Promote in Your Community! 2024 Julian & Jan Hester Scholarship

Again this year, CBA is offering the Julian & Jan Hester Memorial Scholarship for high school seniors. The goal of the scholarship is to assist deserving high school seniors in their first year of college and to promote community banking. 

To compete, students must be sponsored by a local community bank, complete an activity record expressing their leadership activity in school, write a short essay on community banking, provide teacher recommendations and an official high school transcript. Awards are based on academic merit and not financial need. 

CBA will award four $1,000 scholarships. The scholarship is named after former community banker and long-time CBA Chief Executive Officer, the late Julian Hester, and his late daughter, Jan Hester. Jan was a senior at the University of Georgia when she died in an auto accident on April 15, 1990. 

In addition to supporting community banking, this scholarship is an opportunity to pass on the positive qualities both Julian and Jan Hester exemplified to further the development of tomorrow’s generations. 

Visit the Hester Scholarship page for bank information, a press release, student application and Frequently Asked Questions. Applications are due to the bank on April 5, 2024, and to CBA by April 12, 2024.