CULLMAN, Ala. – Listerhill Credit Union on Thursday, Oct. 15, held a grand opening for its new Cullman branch at 702 Industrial Dr. SW. Listerhill broke ground on the new location back in November 2025 and moved in Sept. 16, 2026.
The credit union gave special thanks to Cullman Mayor Woody Jacobs, Cullman County Sheriff-elect Chad Whaley, Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry, Good Hope Mayor Jerry Bartlett, Cullman Economic Development Agency Director Jamie Troutman, Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center President Joey Orr and Cullman County Schools Superintendent Dr. Shane Barnette.
Listerhill Board Chairman Mark Linder told the audience, “It’s good to be here today! Thank you for your hospitality!”
Linder said it felt as though he was just at this location for the groundbreaking ceremony last November. “What a process this has been!” he exclaimed. “I come and represent six other members of our board. We’re ecstatic to have this footprint and this exposure in your market, your community.”
He continued, “We’re so excited about this opportunity that you have afforded us as a community to be more entrenched in your day-to-day lives to offer you affordable financial services. It just goes to show you that if you do it for the right reasons and plant the seed in the right soil, it will produce. We expect this branch to produce a lot for this community.”
Listerhill Credit Union CEO Brad Green was welcomed to the podium and stated, “It is very fitting that today happens to be International Credit Union Day. It is a day that across the world we celebrate the cooperative financial concept of credit unions. I can’t think of a better way for us to celebrate that than to gift a community a new facility. That is the epitome of what we do and why we do it!”
Linder and Green both spoke of seven employees from the Reynolds Metals plant who each put in $5, making a total of $35, to help employees at the local factory in Florence, Alabama in 1952. This started Listerhill Credit Union.
“Today we have assets over $1.5 billion, 92,000 members,” Linder noted.
Green told the audience that these seven individuals were told that their coworkers were being victimized for predatory lending. “They pooled their money and started the Listerhill Credit Union so it can help people borrow more affordably and borrow from traditional sources.
“In Cullman, we actually got here by the way of the Americold compressor plant,” Green mused. “We had a single employee that worked in an office within that plant. That’s how Listerhill came to Cullman!”
Green noted that as the union grew, it set up in multiple locations throughout Cullman, including the most recent on Cherokee Avenue.
“Everyone that walks through this door is not a customer; they’re an owner. That’s different. That’s what the cooperative financial model is all about,” he said.
“We do this – it’s just like anything else we do. Whether it’s rates on loans and deposits, our services we deliver, our technology we deploy – we have one motive. We have one reason we do that. That’s to give value back to our member owners,” he concluded.
In addition to providing door prizes and food to members and others in attendance, Listerhill presented a $10,000 check to Cullman County Schools, accepted by Barnette.
Find Listerhill online at www.listerhill.com or www.facebook.com/listerhillcu or call 256-383-9204.
