Lisa Shileny to lead Hills Bank as president, CEO

HILLS — Lisa Shileny has been named president and CEO of Hills Bancorporation and Hills Bank and Trust Co., effective Jan. 1.

She succeeds Dwight Seegmiller, who will move to a management advisory role to assist in the transition of leadership until he retires in April 2025.

The bank and company’s board of directors announced the appointment Oct. 8.

Shileny is currently the bank’s president and chief operating officer. The bank’s board named her COO in December 2021 and president in November 2022. She was named to the bank’s and company’s board of directors in April 2023.

Shileny has been with Hills Bank since 2005, serving as senior vice president/general counsel from 2015 to 2017; senior vice president/director of operations from 2017 to 2019; and senior vice president/director of administration starting in 2019 through her appointment as chief operating officer.

Shileny, a graduate of Central College and the University of Iowa College of Law, started her career with Stanley, Lande & Hunter law firm. She is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin and the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

She is a current board member and past chairperson of the board of directors of Goodwill of the Heartland and serves on the board of Greater Iowa City Inc.

Seegmiller, who’s been with Hills Bank for 49 years, served as its president and CEO for 38 years, guiding the bank from $220 million in assets in 1986 to more than $4.3 billion today.

The board, in announcing the planned succession, extended its heartfelt gratitude to Seegmiller “for his many years of capable and steady leadership,” according to a news release.

Seegmiller will remain a member of the bank’s and company’s board of directors through the expiration of his current term in April 2025.