Samuel L. Erwin serves as Regional President – Carolinas for First Horizon Bank, overseeing all banking operations in the bank’s offices in South Carolina to include Greenville, Spartanburg, Columbia and Charleston, as well as major markets in North Carolina, including Charlotte and Raleigh.

Prior to joining First Horizon in late 2016 through its predecessor bank IBERIABANK, he served as chairman, president and CEO of Palmetto Bank in Greenville, South Carolina. When Palmetto Bank was acquired by United Community Bank in 2015, Erwin served as a regional president with United Community Bank until joining IBERIABANK.

Erwin is a graduate of Clemson University and serves as a director of its Rutland Ethics Institute. He is involved in a wide variety of other civic and professional organizations, including as a director of the South Carolina Bankers Association and the Business Development Corporation of South Carolina. He is a Liberty Fellowship graduate, class of 2011.