Bob Francl has been promoted to vice president and real estate lending manager of First Independent Bank.
He has worked for the bank since shortly after it opened in 1999.
Francl won the Reno- Sparks Chamber of Commerce Volunteer of the Year award for 2002.
He is a youth pastor at the Harvest Fellowship Church of God, in his second term as chair of the Leadership Reno Sparks Youth Program, serves on the Leadership Reno Sparks Alumni Association Advisory Board and volunteers for Big Brothers Big Sisters.
