Deborah Hennessee Thomas

Deb Hennessee is a senior lending officer for commercial banking. She works predominantly with commercial real estate, to include owner-occupied construction MOBs and commercial banking.

Hennessee has 30 years of diversified banking experience, including 13 years as a senior trust and investment officer. She was born in Nashville and began her career in the trust division of First American Bank, later taking an opportunity with First Union National Bank in Atlanta, GA. Hennessee came to Pinnacle in 2016.

She attended Middle Tennessee State University, where she supported herself by selling life insurance in the evenings, and is a graduate of the Cannon Trust School. Hennessee serves as the Chair for Mental Health America of the MidSouth, a Board member of the Green Hills YMCA and newly appointed Board member for Friends of Warner Parks. She previously served on the Board of Our Kids, Inc. and Finance Committee of the First United Methodist Church.

Hennessee lives in Nashville with her husband Mark Thomas, a retired bank CEO, and has one son, Justin.