James E. Green ’53

Jim was born in Mobile, Ala., but moved to Atlanta at the age of 10, where he graduated from Henry Grady High School. At Grady, he was elected student body president and was captain of the school’s first football team. At Princeton Jim majored in economics, was a member of Cap and Gown, and served as class president.

Following college, he served two years in the Army, attaining the rank of first lieutenant, before returning to Atlanta. Jim joined Citizens and Southern National Bank in 1955 and advanced over the next 25 years to the position of general vice president and member of the executive committee. He then formed his own company, J.E. Green and Co., to provide loan-review services for community banks in the Southeast and throughout the Midwest.

Jim retired in 2003 and summered at his mountain home in Highlands, N.C., in the following years. Jim enjoyed sports and loved golf all of his life. He once said, “I like everything about the game but the score.”

Nancy, Jim’s wife of 45 years, died in 2003. Jim died Sept. 25, 2017, in Atlanta. He is survived by two children, Lyle and Cynthia, and two grandchildren.