SouthState Bank announced it promoted Chad Clarke to Jacksonville market president.
He has served the Jacksonville banking community for 23 years, including the last seven with SouthState as a senior vice president and commercial banking team lead.
Clarke succeeds First Coast Division president Mitch Hunt, who retired in September after a 43-year banking career.
SouthState Corp. is a financial services company headquartered in Winter Haven. It has 10 branches in Northeast Florida, according to its website.
SouthState says it offers consumer, commercial, mortgage and wealth management solutions to more than 1 million customers throughout Florida, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia.
It also serves clients through its correspondent banking division.
SouthState says it has more than 5,000 team members.