Hall of Distinction: Bob Menke

Robert M. Menke, a veteran of 45 years in all aspects of the insurance industry, is founder and chairman of Bankers Insurance Group Inc. and chairman of Insurance Management Solutions Group Inc.

He also is chairman of First Community Bank Corporation of America, a unitary savings bank and loan holding company that owns a company that operates First Community Bank, which has seven branch locations in Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Charlotte counties.

Menke was named Insurance Man of the Year by the Florida Association of Domestic Insurance Companies in 1986. He is a member of the National Association of Independent Insurers, and is a director of Bankers Security Insurance Co., Bankers Life Insurance Co. and Bankers Insurance Co.

He was primary organizer of the Bank of Florida, St. Petersburg, and its parent, the Bank of Florida Corporation, which were formed in 1974. He served as chairman of the board of each company before they were acquitted by SouthTrust Banking Corp.

Menke has extensive timberland holdings. He also owns a hunting lodge on the timberland property.

Menke graduated with a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Florida in 1956.

He is a past member of the St. Petersburg College Advisory Board; a member of the University of Florida President's Council; a member of the Florida Insurance Council, Inc. (FIC); a past member of the Alliance of America Insurers; a member of the Property and Casualty Insurance Association of America; a past member of the executive committee of St. Petersburg Progress; and a member of the Society of International Business Fellows.

Menke is a resident of Tierra Verde.

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That's my grandfather :D not kidding either

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This makes me so proud!