{"id":149963,"date":"2026-06-12T23:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=149963"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:45:27","slug":"the-neffs-national-bank-announced-the-addition-of-a-new-director-of-neffs-bancorp-inc-and-the-neffs-national-bank-as-well-as-a-promotion-of-a-vice-president-of-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=149963","title":{"rendered":"The Neffs National Bank announced the addition of a new director of Neffs Bancorp, Inc. and The Neffs National Bank as well as a promotion of a Vice President of Compliance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neffs, Pa-\u00a0The Neffs National Bank\u00a0announced the addition of a new director of Neffs Bancorp, Inc. and The Neffs National Bank as well as a promotion of a Vice President of Compliance.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149964\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/neffs-promotions.jpg?resize=474%2C262&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/neffs-promotions.jpg?w=672&amp;ssl=1 672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/neffs-promotions.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Robert (Bo) Travis, CPA has been elected a director of Neffs Bancorp, Inc. and The Neffs National Bank.\u00a0Mr. Travis is the Managing Partner of Gorman &amp; Associates PC; an accounting firm located in Northampton Pennsylvania.\u00a0Mr. Travis will provide management, financial and accounting expertise to the Board and is well known in the Northampton community.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Jessica Merkel has been promoted to Vice President of Compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Merkel has been with The Neffs National Bank since 2023 and appointed Vice President Compliance in May 2026. Ms. Merkel has over 20 years of Bank Operations\/Compliance experience.<\/p>\n<p>About The Neffs National Bank<\/p>\n<p>The Neffs National Bank, a subsidiary of Neffs Bancorp, Inc., is committed to serving the financial needs of our clients and local communities with high quality customer focused service and maximizing long-term shareholder value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neffs, Pa-\u00a0The Neffs National Bank\u00a0announced the addition of a new director of Neffs Bancorp, Inc. and The Neffs National Bank as well as a promotion of a Vice President of Compliance. Mr. Robert (Bo) Travis, CPA has been elected a director of Neffs Bancorp, Inc. and The Neffs National Bank.\u00a0Mr. Travis is the Managing Partner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=149963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Neffs National Bank announced the addition of a new director of Neffs Bancorp, Inc. and The Neffs National Bank as well as a promotion of a Vice President of Compliance.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\r\n\r\n{excerpt}\r\n\r\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/neffs-bank.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149965,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149963\/revisions\/149965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}