WEST POINT, Va., June 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- C&F Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:CFFI), the one-bank holding company for C&F Bank, announced that Dr. Julie Richardson Agnew has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of C&F Bank (the “Board”). Dr. Agnew is an Associate Professor of Finance and Economics and current Director of the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance at the College of William and Mary’s Mason School of Business. She is a TIAA Institute Fellow, a former elected member of the Defined Contribution Plans Advisory Committee for the Virginia Retirement System and a Research Associate for the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Dr. Agnew worked as an analyst in investment banking for Salomon Brothers in New York City and as an equity research associate for Vector Securities International in Chicago.

Dr. Agnew earned a B.A. degree in Economics and a minor in Mathematics from the College of William and Mary and received a Ph.D. in Finance from Boston College.

“Julie’s wealth of knowledge and experience in the area of finance will be extremely valuable to our organization and we are very fortunate to have her as a member of the Board,” stated C&F Financial Corporation’s Chairman and CEO Larry Dillon.

About C&F Financial Corporation

C&F Financial Corporation is the parent of C&F Bank, which was founded in 1927 in West Point, Virginia, and is one of the oldest independent community banking organizations headquartered in Virginia. C&F Bank provides full-service banking to the eastern region of Virginia with 25 branch locations including the counties of Powhatan, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Middlesex, James City, New Kent, Hanover and Henrico, as well as the town of West Point and the cities of Williamsburg, Newport News, Hampton and Richmond.

C&F Bank offers full investment services through its subsidiary C&F Wealth Management, Inc. C&F Mortgage Corporation provides mortgage, title and appraisal services through 13 offices located in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. C&F Finance Company provides automobile loans through indirect lending programs in Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia through its offices in Virginia, Tennessee and Maryland.

Additional information is available on C&F’s web site at http://www.cffc.com.