Sterne Agee Public Finance Hires Steve French as Senior Vice President

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sterne Agee’s Municipal Finance Group has hired former State of Alabama Senator Steve French to join its Southeast banking effort.

“Steve has an extraordinary knowledge of government and finance in addition to strong relationships developed over his 12-year career in the State Senate. Steve’s focus on customer service will benefit our Alabama clients with attentiveness, solutions to problems and competitive costs of borrowing,” says Hanson Slaughter, Executive Managing Director of Public Finance.

Senator French spent three terms in the Alabama Senate, representing District 15. He is an investment and insurance specialist and, most recently, had the committee assignments of Finance and Taxation General Fund, Health, Rules, and Industrial Development and Recruitment. Prior to his tenure in the Senate, Senator French was active in all aspects of Alabama politics, having operated a political consulting firm assuming key roles in the Republican Party, including serving as:

• State Director for the Alabama Republican Party (1988 – 1991)
• Regional Director for the Republican National Committee (1991 – 1992)
• Alabama Campaign Manager for Bush/Quayle (1992)
• State Organization Chairman for Bush/Cheney (2000)
• Southeastern U.S. Legislative Co-Chair for John McCain for President (2008)

Senator French holds Series 7, 63 and 65 licenses and is a graduate of Auburn University with a B.S. degree in Personnel and Industrial Relations.

Sterne Agee’s Public Finance Group is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, and maintains offices in New York, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Ft. Lauderdale, Montgomery, Atlanta, Macon, GA and Lexington, KY. Sterne Agee has served as an underwriter on 346 municipal financings throughout the country totaling $18.1 billion in par amount in the last 12 months.

Founded in 1901, Sterne Agee is one of the oldest and largest privately-owned investment banking firms in the country. Sterne Agee employs more than 1,000 professionals and has offices in 24 states. Sterne Agee is the trade name used by all affiliates of Sterne Agee Group, Inc., including Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc., member of NYSE/FINRA/SIPC. For more information, visit www.sterneagee.com.

Sterne Agee
Senator Steve French, 205-222-3622 or 205-271-6268
Senior Vice President, Public Finance
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or
B. Hanson Slaughter, 205-949-3534
Executive Managing Director, Public Finance
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orLeah McKinney, 205-949-3564
Senior Vice President, Marketing
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Source: Sterne Agee