Emmons wins top U.S. Bank award

Bob Emmons, U.S. Bank branch manager in Ritzville, has won U.S. Bank’s Pinnacle Award, the company’s highest employee achievement honor.

Emmons was among the top one percent of top performing employees nationwide to win U.S. Bank’s award for outstanding achievement and superior performance and was recently recognized at a company dinner.

Richard Davis, chairman, president and chief executive officer of U.S. Bancorp, the parent company of U.S. Bank., said, “Bob deserves tremendous congratulations for this achievement as he does an outstanding job to make sure our customer’s expectations are not only met, but exceeded.”

He noted that it is because of employees like Emmons that U.S. Bank has received several accolades this past year, including being recognized in Fortune magazine as one of the world’s most admired super regional banks.

This is Emmons’s first award. He is a graduate of University of Southern Colorado with an economics degree. Emmons volunteers in the chamber of commerce and the Adams County Economic Development Council.

U.S. Bank’s Pinnacle awards program recognizes outstanding achievement and rewards employees for their tremendous performance.

U.S. Bancorp is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the fifth largest commercial bank in the United States. The company operates 3,082 banking offices in 25 states and 5,238 ATMs, and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions.

U.S. Bancorp earned the 2011 Spirit of America Award, the highest honor bestowed on a company by United Way.

More information about the company is available online at www.usbank.com.