LaQuanda Blocker, Roy McMahon, Anna Moore, Melanie Tran and Stephanie Zuidema have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners' financial center in Murfreesboro.

With Pinnacle's team of financial advisors and client-facing associates growing weekly, the operations team grows with it so that more clients can experience the distinctive service Pinnacle has always offered.

Blocker joins Pinnacle as a card services specialist. Before joining Pinnacle, she spent 18 years with Regions Bank (AmSouth Bank), where her roles included serving as a mortgage closing disclosure specialist and a consumer lending-funding specialist.

McMahon is an item processing specialist in the deposit operations area. He spent 43 years with SunTrust Bank (Third National Bank), where he managed SunTrust's check processing department.45

Moore joins the firm as a trust operations specialist. Prior to joining Pinnacle, she spent 17 years with Regions Bank, where roles included serving as a liaison between Middle Tennessee retail operations managers and branch associates, and as a branch service leader. Moore earned her bachelor's degree in business administration and finance from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Tran joins Pinnacle as a fraud analyst. She brings 25 years of experience from Regions Bank, where she most recently was an operations specialist in the bank's fraud division. She earned an economic degree from Trung Vuong Saigon Viet Nam.

Zuidema, with 20 years of experience, is a loan operations support analyst. Before joining Pinnace, her roles included serving as an equity underwriter with Regions Bank, a personal banker for U.S. Bank Corp and a branch manager for Mariner Finance in Smyrna. Zuidema attended Cleveland State College.

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 firm is the No. 1 bank in the Nashville-Murfreesboro-Franklin MSA, according to 2018 deposit data from the FDIC. Pinnacle earned a place on FORTUNE's 2017 and 2018 lists of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the U.S., and American Banker recognized Pinnacle as one of America's Best Banks to Work For six years in a row.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $24.6 billion in assets as of Sept. 30, 2018. As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in 11 primarily urban markets in Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginia.