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March l, 1995
For further information: Ellen Laden, 205/933-3554
COMPASS BANCSHARES SETS ANNUAL MEETING DATE
ANNOUNCES SLATE OF DIRECTORS
Birmingham, Ala. -- Compass Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSS)
today announced that the board of directors set April ll, 1995 as
the date of the company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The
record date for shareholders eligible to vote at the meeting was
set by the board as March 8, 1995.
The meeting will be held at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic
Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Birmingham, Alabama beginning at
9:30 a.m., Central Time.
The business at the meeting will include the election of
three directors to serve for three-year terms. The board of
directors has nominated two directors for re-election and one new
director to fill the seat being vacated by a retiring director.
The two directors standing for re-election are D. Paul
Jones, Jr., and Charles W. Daniel. The new director nominated by
the board is George W. Hansberry, M.D., a prominent Decatur,
Alabama physician.
Jones, 52, has served as chairman of the board and chief
executive officer of Compass Bancshares and Compass Bank since
1991, a period in which the company has posted record earnings
and growth. He joined Compass and became a director in 1978, was
appointed president and chief operating officer in 1989.
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Daniel, 54, is president of Dantract, Inc. a Birmingham-
based real estate investment firm. He is the son of Hugh Daniel,
a Compass founder and has served as a director of Compass since
1982.
Hansberry, 67, is a physician in Decatur, Alabama and a
founding member of Compass Bank's Decatur City Board of
Directors, on which he has served since 1972.
Compass Bancshares, Inc. is a $9.1 billion bank holding
company with 178 offices in Alabama, Florida and Texas. Compass
reported record earnings of $99.7 million in 1994 and has a
capital base of $601 million. Shares of the company's common
stock are traded through the Nasdaq national market system under
the symbol CBSS.
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