Click below to see this year’s rankings. Top 25 Banks Top 30 $50 Billion and Above Top 30 $5 Billion up to $50 Billion Top 30 Less Than $5 Billion   If Betsy Lawer hadn’t become a banker, she likely would have pursued a career as a high school principal. “I like helping people, and what better way to help than to shape the next generation of young people,” she says. Lawer, like her father and her grandfather before her, ended up pursuing a career in banking instead and has worked at First National Bank Alaska in Anchorage, Alaska, for…

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Jackie Stewart is the Executive Editor of Bank Director. She is responsible for writing and editing features for the company’s weekly newsletter and quarterly print magazine and oversees sponsored research reports. Jackie is particularly interested in community banking and M&A activity. She previously served in a number of reporter and editor roles with American Banker, including executive editor of American Banker Magazine. She has also covered retirement issues for Kiplinger and spent two years teaching middle school literacy in the Bronx, New York, through Teach For America.