Park National Corporation announced board of directors elected Karen Morrison and Kelly Gratz to serve as directors effective July 1, 2024. Both will also join the board of directors of The Park National Bank, Park?s banking subsidiary, effective on the same date. These elections expand Park?s board to 16 directors, including one director emeritus.

Gratz has been a member of the Healthcare Women?s Business Association?s (HBA) advisory board (Ohio chapter), and the vice chair on Marburn Academy?s board of trustees. She was named Rising Star by the HBA in 2008 and recognized in PharmaVoice Top 100 in 2012. Gratz earned a bachelor?s degree from the University of Dayton .

Karen Morrison serves as president of the OhioHealth Foundation and senior vice president of OhioHealth Corporation. She has been with OhioHealth for over 30 years and currently leads the enterprise strategy for external affairs including community relations, corporate reinvestment, health equity and government affairs. In her role as foundation president Morrison oversees philanthropy for the enterprise.

Morrison serves on the board of Greif Inc. (NYSE: GEF), and has extensive nonprofit board service. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Women Corporate Directors, the Executive Leadership Council and The Links Inc. Morrison was honored in the inaugural class of Columbus Business First?s ?Women of Influence? and received its first ?Businesswoman of the Year?

award. She was also named to the 2023 list of ?Directors to Watch? by Directors & Boards Magazine.

She earned a bachelor?s degree from Vanderbilt University, a graduate degree in preventive medicine from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and juris doctor from Capital University. Morrison will serve in the class of directors whose terms expire on the date of Park?s annual meeting of shareholders in 2026. Gratz?s term will expire on the date of Park?s annual meeting of shareholders in 2027.

They will both serve as members of the board?s Risk Committee.