Carlin Friar
Carlin Friar is a leader in so many different ways. Somer and I enjoyed sitting down with him and learning about everything from School Board’s responsibilities to how you can be very involved with your local fire department, police force, and so much more. As you listen to this episode, please remember to get out and vote in your local School Board and City elections!
Financial Institution Experience – San Antonio/Boerne, Texas
In 1986, my banking career began with the ability to intern in a number of operations-related departments including teller, new accounts representative, bookkeeping, and accounting. Over time, I managed Special Assets (foreclosures and repossessions) as well as directed a data processing center. I have served as a Bank Cashier, Controller, and Chief Financial Officer. Following a merger into Sterling Bank in 2003, my career path changed, and I began development of credit skills, and commercial lending. I was also afforded the opportunity to begin management development and team building with multi-branch responsibilities, at one time providing oversight of the retail operations of 13 offices in San Antonio.
Since that time, I have served as Branch President, CFO, Commercial Lender, Chief Operating Officer, and Bank President/Director. As an independent consultant, I worked with an investment group in 2017 to open the newest bank in Texas since 2009. I am currently employed as the Boerne President of The Bank and Trust, ssb, which is a community bank based out of Del Rio, Texas.
Skills and Experiences
Community involvement includes service on the Board of Trustees for the Boerne Independent School District beginning in 2015. I was elected as Secretary in May of 2016, and May of 2021; Vice President in May of 2017 and May of 2022; served as President for the 2018-2019 school year, and currently hold that position. I also serve on the Audit/Finance Committee, the Facilities Committee, the Legislative Advocacy Committee and the Safety & Security Committee, and have previously served on the Whole Child Committee. In February of 2021, I was appointed as a Board Trustee for Hill Country Memorial Hospital, based in Fredericksburg. Following the sale of the hospital to Methodist in April of 2023, I transitioned to a Board Member of Create Healthy, the remaining entity that serves as a charitable foundation promoting healthy initiatives in Gillespie and the surrounding counties. In June of 2021, I was appointed by the Mayor of Boerne to serve as Chairman of the Ethic Review Commission for the City of Boerne.
I am a past member of the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Club of the Texas Hill Country, the Boerne Unit Advisory Council of the Boys and Girls Club of the Texas Hill Country (Served as Chairman in 2009), Board of Directors of the Boerne Chamber of Commerce from 2012 to 2015 (Treasurer in 2014), Board of Directors of United Way of Kendall County from July of 2008 (President in 2010) to August of 2014, Boerne-Kendall County Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors from 2013 through March of 2016 (Secretary from 2015-2016) and again as a board member since 2022, City of Helotes Economic Development Corporation, and former 15-year active member of Leon Springs Volunteer Fire Department, last serving as Assistant Fire Chief/Paramedic in 1998. I am a 2008-2009 graduate of Leadership Boerne, and a 2021-2022 Graduate of Leadership Gillespie County (Fredericksburg).
As parents of triplets since 2003, my wife and I were involved as participants, and then mentors, of new parents of multiple-birth children through the San Antonio Area Mothers of Multiples organization.
