Frances Jeter, NACD.DC
Partner, FGS Global; Former Director - Stellar Bancorp, Inc., Allegiance Bancshares, and NACD Texas TriCities Chapter
Ms. Jeter was a Director of Stellar Bancorp, Inc. from Oct. 2022 until July 2026 when Stellar was acquired by Prosperity Bancshares. From 2014 to 2022, Ms. Jeter was a member of the Board of Directors of Allegiance Bancshares.
At FGS Global, Ms. Jeter has advised clients on complex transactions and special situations, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, IPO's, restructurings, and shareholder activism as well as crisis preparedness and response, reputation management, and litigation support. She also advises multiple energy, industrial, extractive industry and technology clients on governance and sustainability matters.
As a former director of public company boards and in her role at FGS Global, Ms. Jeter is focused on corporate strategy and execution, corporate governance, risk assessment, sustainability, corporate reputation and issues management, succession planning, executive transition, human capital and compensation matters.
Prior to joining FGS Global, Ms. Jeter was Group Vice President of Internal and External Affairs for Spectra Energy, a pipeline and midstream company, where she was responsible for investor and financial communications, issues management and crisis communications, sustainability and ESG, stakeholder relations, executive positioning and communications, media and brand. She previously served as Vice President of Public Affairs for Duke Energy Gas Transmission, a predecessor company of Spectra Energy.
Ms. Jeter is a former board member of the National Association of Corporate Directors; a member of Women Corporate Directors; member of the United Way of Greater Houston’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society and Resource Development Committee. She is a life trustee emerita and past chair of The Kinkaid School Board of Trustees and a Distinguished Alumna of the school and a former trustee of The Hockaday School. She also is the founding Chair of Houston's The Fay School and has served on numerous other non-profit boards of directors, including the Greater Houston Community Foundation and Phi Beta Kappa Alumni.
Ms. Jeter earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
