Independent Banker - July 2020 - 56

Amy Mills (center), coowner
and manager of
17th Street Barbecue,
works with First
Southern Bank president
and CEO John C. Dosier
(left) and Mike Hopkins,
senior vice president
commercial lending.
'Everything we do is local'
Amy Mills
17th Street Barbecue, Murphysboro, Ill.
A
my Mills has barbecue in
her blood. The daughter
of Mike " The Legend "
Mills, she joined the family business,
17th Street Barbecue, in 2000 and
took over running it four years
ago. In the process, she used her
experience in advertising and public
relations to propel the brand onto
the national stage. Today, there are
two restaurants in Murphysboro and
Marion, Ill., an event and catering
facility and a mail-order operation, as
well as two Memphis Championship
Barbecues in Las Vegas. She is also
the author of James Beard awardwinning
Peace, Love and Barbecue
and the director of a consulting fi rm.
Mills uses several banks but
primarily $700 million-asset First
Southern Bank in Marion, where she
works with president and CEO John
Dosier and Mike Hopkins, senior vice
president of commercial lending.
" We're very community focused, "
she says. " Everything we do is local.
56 Q ICBA Independent Banker Q July 2020
We try to get our gas at the only locally
owned gas station. We try to shop at
all the locally owned businesses. Local
is a theme that has reverberated from
childhood on, and it's more important
than ever right now. "
Recently, Mills decided to open a
barbecue sauce factory inside a former
car dealership near the Murphysboro
restaurant. It has been a labor of
love, she says, proving to be far more
challenging and expensive than
expected. However, First Southern
Bank has been with her every step of
the way. In January, her contractor
quit, and when she secured a
replacement, the COVID-19 crisis hit.
Photo: Mark Dolan

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