Meader has served as Chairman and CEO of First National Bank of Kansas since 1988. He is a graduate of University of Nebraska-Kearney and the Graduate school of Banking in Madison Wisconsin. Meader has served as Chairman of the Kansas Bankers Association and the Bankers Bank of Kansas. He is a former member of the ABA Community Bankers Council, Government Relations Council and the ABA Board of Directors. Meader has just finished his sixteenth year as Mayor of the city of Waverly and is currently serving on the Coffey County Economic Development Committee and Team Kansas.