Inductee

Bill Gatton
Bill Gatton Motors
Bill Gatton graduated with a Bachelor’s
degree from the University of Kentucky in
1954. He started a de novo Volkswagen
agency in Owensboro in 1959. In 1975, he
and four of his friends purchased the
Owensboro National Bank and formed a
one bank holding company. The bank grew
from a bank with one hundred million dollars
in assets to seventeen banks with three
billion dollars in assets by the time it was
sold to BB&T in 2001. He has also owned
and operated as many as twelve automobile
dealerships in Tennessee, Texas and Alabama.
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