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Dan Baumgarten will retire from Dacotah Bank, Lemmon, S.D., on June 29 after nearly 50 years with the bank. Baumgarten has been president of the bank since 1990. Travis Ellison has been named market president and will begin his new job on July 2. In addition, Garrett Schweitzer has been hired at the bank as an agricultural lender..Ellison joined the bank in 2004, having worked as an ag lender for Farm Credit Services and Wells Fargo in Bismarck, N.D. He has an associate of arts degree in farm and ranch management, and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Dickinson State University in Dickinson, N.D. He also has a master's degree in management from the University of Mary in Bismarck. In 2006, he completed the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado, Boulder..Prior to joining Dacotah Bank, Schweitzer was with the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a soil conservationist. Schweitzer's voice is familiar to Lemmon area sports fans as a play-by-play broadcaster at KBJM Radio. He is a 2007 graduate of South Dakota State University at Brookings with a bachelor's of science degree in wildlife and fisheries sciences..Jeff Campbell will help support enterprise risk management for Starion Financial and all 13 of its bank locations in North Dakota and Wisconsin, effective Jan. 1, 2013..Campbell will identify opportunities for investment and enterprise growth, and help minimize unnecessary exposur for the financial institution. He will help manage risk tolerance to maintain sound business practices while maximizing profitability. The new position will be based in the Starion audit and compliance division in Mandan, N.D..Campbell has been market president of Starion Financial branches in Dunseith, Rolla and Bottineau, N.D., since the company merged with Security State Bank last October. Prior to the merger, he was chief executive officer and president of Security State Bank, Dunseith..Campbell has more than 30 years of bank experience. He is a graduate of Minot State University, Minot, N.D., and the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado, Boulder..Jenny Senecal has been named senior vice president/Twin Cities credit manager for State Bank & Trust, Fargo, N.D. The bank is opening its first full-service Twin Cities office..Senecal has more than 20 years of experience in credit and commercial lending, most recently as credit analysis manager for Anchor Bank. She graduated from Winona State University, Winona, Minn., and has a master's of business administration degree in financing and accounting from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis..Leonard Kirscht has been named vice president of business banking for KleinBank's Northwest market. KleinBank is based in Chaska, Minn. Kirscht brings 24 years of experience in banking and public and private government financing to KleinBank. He is also familiar with the Northwest market, having served as market president for the First National Bank of Elk River, Minn. He has a bachelor of arts degree in public administration from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minn..Sherry Barrat, vice chairman of Northern Trust, Chicago, will retire at the end of June. Barrat has been with Northern Trust for 22 years. Prior to becoming vice chairman last year, she led Northern Trust's personal financial services business globally. Barrat began her Northern Trust career in Miami, Fla. Northern Trust has also announced:.Tim Moen has been named chief administrative officer. He had been responsible for human resources. Biff Bowman, executive vice president and head of the Americas for corporate & institutional services, will succeed Moen as head of human resources and join the management group. Bowman has been with Northern Trust for nearly 27 years. David Fox, Jr., will replace Bowman as head of the Americas for corporate and institutional services. Fox joins Northern Trust from JPMorgan Chase.