For release: April 21, 2004

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Erixon Appointed to St. Louis Fed's Little Rock Branch Board

ST. LOUIS, Mo.— Stephen M. Erixon, chief executive officer of Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Ark., has been appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to fill an unexpired term on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' Little Rock branch board of directors. The term ends Dec. 31, 2005.

Erixon is also a diplomate in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the government relations committee of the Arkansas Hospital Association, the advisory board of Arkansas State University and the Rotary Club of Mountain Home.

With branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis serves the Eighth Federal Reserve District, which includes all of Arkansas, eastern Missouri, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. The St. Louis Fed is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., comprise the Federal Reserve System. As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve System formulates U.S. monetary policy, regulates state-chartered member banks and bank holding companies, and provides payment services to financial institutions and the U.S. government.

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