Gordon M. Sherman - Board of Directors Member

Gordon Sherman is retired from 43-years of service to the military and federal government. During the last 23 years of his career, Sherman was the southeast regional commissioner of the Social Security Administration. He was responsible for the $70 billion annual program including a network of 300 offices with a staff of more than 12,000 federal and state employees.

Today, in addition to his role with One Georgia Bank, he is a principal of Lamon & Sherman Consulting, LLC, an investment and income replacement consulting firm and a director of Government Benefits and Information Services, Inc. Other capacities in which he presently serves include director of Lenbrook Foundation, Inc., a continuing care retirement community in Atlanta; director of the Auburn University Foundation; and a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration.

Sherman’s many banking affiliations over the years included board positions for Citizens & Southern Bank of Gwinnett County, East Metro Division of Citizens & Southern Bank of Atlanta, The Enterprise Bank of Dunwoody, Georgia, Fidelity National Bank, Fidelity Southern and Regions Bank of Atlanta where he served as board chairman.The National Public Service Award, Ewell T. Bartlett Humanity in Government Award, three Presidential Executive Awards and a Making The King Holiday Award are among the many accolades Sherman has received.

A resident of Dunwoody, Georgia, he earned a B.S. from Auburn University, a J.D., LL.M. and an honorary LL.D. from Woodrow Wilson College of Law and is a graduate of the Senior Governmental Managers Program, Harvard University, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.