SBIT Summit Bancshares

Robert P. (Pat) Evans, CPA Named to Board of Summit Bancshares, Inc. FORT WORTH, Texas, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Philip E. Norwood, Chairman of the Board of Summit Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:SBIT) (SBI), has announced the election of Robert P. (Pat) Evans, CPA to the holding company's Board of Directors. Prior to his election to the SBI board, Mr. Evans served on the Board of Directors of Summit Bank, N.A. He will continue on the Bank's Board of Directors. "Mr. Evans is a leading member of the Tarrant County business community and is very knowledgeable of the market and brings significant financial expertise to us," Mr. Norwood said. "We look forward to Pat's participation in the direction of the Company." Mr. Evans is the Managing Partner of Sproles Woodard L.L.P., a regional public accounting firm based in Fort Worth. Mr. Evans currently serves as the Chair of the United Way of Metropolitan Tarrant County, Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital, and the Davey O'Brien Foundation. He is also past-chair of the Harris Methodist Health System. He is on the boards of the First Methodist Church of Fort Worth Foundation, Inc., the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, and the Fort Worth Club. He has served on various other community boards. He is active in the Rotary Club of Fort Worth, having served as president during 1992-93, and is a past member of the Advisory Board of the Hankamer School of Business of Baylor University. Summit Bancshares is a community oriented bank holding company with one banking subsidiary -- Summit Bank, N.A. and assets of $1.0 billion. The bank is engaged in full-service commercial and consumer banking in Tarrant County with twelve offices. Summit Bancshares is publicly-traded in the Nasdaq National Market System and listed under the symbol "SBIT". For more information on Summit Bancshares, please visit the Company's website at http://summitbank.net/ . http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041025/DASBANKLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Summit Bancshares, Inc. CONTACT: Philip E. Norwood, Chairman, or Bob G. Scott, COO, both of Summit Bancshares, Inc., +1-817-877-2660 Web site: http://www.summitbank.net/

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