June 29, 2009 (FinancialWire) — BancTrust Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BTFG) (Current Market Cap: $55.84 Mil.) has appointed James F. House as president of the Florida region of the company’s subsidiary bank, BankTrust.

House most recently served as a banking and financial consultant for financial institutions. Prior to that, he was employed by SouthTrust Bank as executive vice president for the company’s General Bank unit, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of all commercial loan functions of the bank.

He has also served as CEO of the SouthTrust’s Birmingham market and oversaw various regions for SouthTrust, including Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas. House was in commercial lending for 19 years before becoming chairman and CEO of SouthTrust Bank of Dothan, N.A. in 1993.

Mobile, Alabama-based BancTrust Financial Group is a bank holding company that provides a range of traditional financial services through 41 bank offices in the southern two-thirds of Alabama and 10 bank offices in northwest Florida through its subsidiary bank, BankTrust.

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