Also known as Mike Stewart
Michael J. Stewart, known as Mike, is First Merchants Bank’s president and its announced next chief executive.
The October 1, 2026 announcement sets his president-and-chief-executive appointment at the holding company for January 1, 2027; the transition is prospective at the research cutoff.
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First Merchants Bank expanded from a nineteenth-century Muncie institution through a series of acquisitions and a common banking platform. Its story includes a resolved fair-lending case, the 2026 First Savings integration and an announced leadership handover from Mark Hardwick to Mike Stewart in January 2027.
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