Banner Corporation announced that Margot James Copeland and Paul J. Walsh have been appointed to the Board of Directors effective March 1, 2022. Copeland and Walsh were also appointed to the Board of Directors of Banner Bank. Copeland has over 20 years of experience, with her previous positions being at KeyBank and KeyBank Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.

At KeyBank, she was Executive Vice President and Director Corporate Philanthropy and Community Engagement from 2001 through 2019; during the same period, she served as Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer for KeyBank Foundation. Walsh is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Digital, Engineering, and IT at Sony Interactive Entertainment, which he joined in January 2022. He was an Executive-In-Residence with Adobe from 2021 to 2022.

Walsh served as Senior Vice President and Global Chief Digital Officer with Lenovo from 2018 to 2020.