Jackson W. Moore is an American attorney and a former executive chairman of Union Planters Bank and Regions Financial Corporation.
[1] Following a clerkship with Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City working on mergers and acquisitions, he entered the private practice of law in 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee following a brief stint the United States Army as a captain in the Adjudant Generals Corp.
During a period of falling interest rates, Moore closed over two hundred of the bank's under-performing branches, eliminated unnecessary salaries and expenditures, and streamlined operations.
The merger created a 1,400-branch superbank with operations across fifteen states, and it was the largest bank in Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Moore was named chairman and chief executive of the merged bank and relocated with his family to its new headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama.
[6] Moore, with wife Betty, moved back to Memphis, where he planned to focus on his private equity investments, civic and charitable work and spending time with his family.