Donella Kerr, Kourtney Mooney and Amber Walton have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners as service specialists.

Kerr brings 27 years of experience and comes to Pinnacle from SunTrust Bank, where roles included serving as a teller, teller coordinator and client service specialist.

She is based at Pinnacle's South Lowry office in Smyrna.

Mooney brings five years of experience from U.S. Bank, where she was a teller coordinator for its Smyrna office. She is based at Pinnacle's Sam Ridley office in Smyrna.

Walton joins Pinnacle as a service specialist at its Memorial office in Murfreesboro. She brings 11 years of experience and comes most recently from First Tennessee Bank, where she was an operations manager and financial service representative.

Pinnacle Financial Partners provides a full range of banking, investment, trust, mortgage and insurance products and services designed for businesses and their owners and individuals interested in a comprehensive relationship with their financial institution. The American Banker recognized Pinnacle as the sixth best bank to work for in the country in 2016.

The firm began operations in a single downtown Nashville location in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $9.7 billion in assets at June 30, 2016. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in the state's four largest markets, Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Chattanooga, as well as several surrounding counties.