James Kelley

James Virgil Kelley currently works at USAble Mutual Insurance Co., as Director and Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield, as Director.
Mr. Kelley also formerly worked at First United Bancshares, Inc. (Arkansas), as Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, First National Bank of El Dorado (Arkansas), as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer in 2000, North Mississippi Health Services, Inc., as Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as Director-Little Rock Branch, Murphy Oil Corp., as Independent Director from 2006 to 2025, BancorpSouth, Inc., as President & Chief Operating Officer in 2014, and BancorpSouth Bank, as President & Chief Operating Officer in 2014.
Mr. Kelley received his undergraduate degree in 1971 from Ouachita Baptist University.