Stock Yards Bancorp, Inc., parent company of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company, with offices in Louisville, central, eastern and northern Kentucky, as well as the Indianapolis, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan markets, announced that Allison J. Donovan has joined the Boards of Directors for both the Company and the Bank. The addition of Ms. Donovan, which expands both Boards to 14 directors, continues the Company's recent focus on board succession planning and promoting leadership continuity in view of an upcoming mandatory retirement. Ms. Donovan is a member of Stoll Keenon Ogden (SKO), a regional law firm with approximately 180 attorneys practicing out of five cities in Kentucky and Indiana.

Ms. Donovan has been with the firm since 2006 upon graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Law and concentrates primarily on Corporate, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Banking matters. She has been active in firm management and recently served on the firm's Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She is a director and the immediate past President of the Kentucky Bar Foundation, and has previously served on other community nonprofit boards, including the American Heart Association and the John W. Rowe Foundation, Inc.Ms. Donovan has previously participated in Leadership Central Kentucky and the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows program.

Among other recognitions, Ms. Donovan has the distinction of being honored as a Rising Star by Kentucky Super Lawyers® and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America®. She will serve as a member of the Risk Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Company's board of directors.