FLORENCE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 24, 2026--
Oregon Pacific Bancorp (ORPB), the holding company for Oregon Pacific Bank, today announced that President Amber J. White will assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of both Oregon Pacific Bank and Oregon Pacific Bancorp, effective July 1, 2026.
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CEO Ron Green, who announced his intention to retire earlier this year, will transition to the role of Executive Advisor and Board Member on July 1 and will continue to support White, the Board of Directors, and the Bank through his retirement on September 16, 2026.
Green’s departure concludes an over 37-year career in banking, more than half of which has been with Oregon Pacific Bank.
“Ron has led this institution with vision and purpose for nearly two decades,” said Jon Thompson, Board Chair of Oregon Pacific Bank and Oregon Pacific Bancorp. “Under his leadership, the Bank strengthened its commitment to relationship-driven community banking and positioned itself for long-term success. The Board is grateful for his stewardship and confident in the continuity this succession provides.”
Green joined Oregon Pacific Bank in 2007 as Chief Credit Officer, helping guide the Bank through the Great Recession. He was promoted to President & CEO and appointed to the Board of Directors in 2013. During his tenure as President, the Bank added three offices and grew total assets from $177 million to over $820 million.
“It has been the highlight of my career to be a part of Oregon Pacific Bank for the past 19 years,” said Ron Green. “I am grateful to the Board of Directors for allowing our team to take calculated risks and build a stronger bank that is able to truly create meaningful value for our clients, employees, shareholders, and the communities we serve. We have positioned the Bank for continued success, and Amber will be an extraordinary CEO and community bank leader.”
White joined Oregon Pacific Bank in 2017 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and was promoted to President and appointed to the Boards of Directors in January 2026. The succession from Green to White reflects a carefully planned investment in leadership development from within, preserving a commitment to the culture, community relationships, and institutional knowledge that define a true community bank.
“I’m grateful for the foundation Ron and this team have built, and for the relationships that make this bank what it is,” said Amber White. “I look forward to serving our clients, employees, shareholders, and communities, and to ensuring Oregon Pacific Bank remains focused on what matters most.”
About Oregon Pacific Bank
Oregon Pacific Bank is a community bank headquartered in Lane County, Oregon, serving clients across the state through relationship-driven banking and local decision-making. Oregon Pacific Bancorp (ORPB) is the holding company for Oregon Pacific Bank. Learn more at www.oregonpacificbank.com.
Amber White to become CEO July 1 as Ron Green prepares for September retirement.
A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday she wasn't acting alone.
Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said evidence from a neighbor’s doorbell camera, ballistics and analysis of cellphone records have left investigators certain Michelle Zajko is at least partly responsible for the deaths of her parents, Rita and Richard. They were shot in her childhood playroom on New Year’s Eve 2022, surrounded by her old dolls and toys.
"At this time we do not know who her co-conspirators were, but we are very certain that Michelle Zajko was in the home and arranged for the death of her parents,” Rouse said.
The new charges against Zajko, who has been jailed in Maryland on other charges since February 2025, include murder, burglary and conspiracy charges in her parents’ deaths. She has denied killing them, and in court filings suggested her father might have killed her mother and himself.
“I didn’t murder my parents,” she wrote in an April 2025 “ Open Letter to the World” that her attorney sent to The Associated Press.
Authorities had long described Zajko as a person of interest.
The two deaths are among six linked to the Zizians, a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists who appear to share radical beliefs about veganism, animal rights, gender identity and artificial intelligence. Since 2022, members have been tied to the death of one of their own during an attack on a California landlord, the landlord’s subsequent killing, the Zajkos’ deaths in Pennsylvania, and a highway shootout in Vermont that left a border agent and another Zizian dead.
In the Pennsylvania case, investigators spent years painstakingly collecting evidence, Rouse said, including video from a neighbor's doorbell camera that captured two people getting out of a car outside the Zajkos' home in Chester Heights, a voice shouting “Mom!” and another voice exclaiming, “Oh my God! Oh, God, God!”
Authorities haven't found a weapon, but Zajko made a list describing mistakes such as leaving shell casings behind, he said. Those casings matched ammunition from Zajko's home in Vermont and from a firing range in her backyard, Rouse said.
“If she wasn’t the one who actually pulled the trigger, she was certainly aligned with those who did,” he said.
Online court records didn't indicate whether Zajko had an attorney in the Pennsylvania case as of Wednesday. An attorney representing her in Maryland did not respond to a message seeking comment, and the Delaware County Public Defender’s office declined to comment.
Zajko, now 33, also is charged with providing the gun used to kill U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland in January 2025, though nothing has happened in that case. She was arrested in Maryland a few weeks later along with Daniel Blank and Jack “Ziz” LaSota, whom authorities describe as the group’s leader. Police who responded to a landowner's complaint about suspicious people parked in box trucks on his property described them as having “ties with the Zizians Cult” and said they would be questioned about crimes across the country.
All three have pleaded not guilty to charges of trespassing and illegal gun and drug possession, while LaSota also has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of illegal gun possession by a fugitive. A judge recently granted a defense request for a competency evaluation in the federal case.
In court filings, LaSota’s attorneys said their client eschews the term Zizian and denies that she and her friends have formed a cult. Zajko has claimed authorities arrested the group in Maryland to prevent them from exonerating Teresa Youngblut, who has pleaded not guilty to murder in the Vermont shooting and could face the death penalty if convicted.
Zajko was living with Blank in Vermont at the time of her parents’ deaths and was questioned there by police shortly after they died. A few weeks later, officers briefly took her into custody at a hotel while she was in Pennsylvania for the funeral but released her without charges. LaSota, staying at the same hotel, was charged with obstructing the homicide investigation and disorderly conduct. Her attorney at the time has said she is innocent of those charges.
Zajko had been estranged from her parents in the year leading up to their deaths, the prosecutor said. In a January 2022 text message to her father, she complained that her mother had “assumed the worst” about her since she was a child.
“Every time I interact with mom in a nonsuperficial way she spends the time insulting a life she knows nothing about,” Zajko wrote. Hours before her death, Rita Zajko apologized to her daughter and wished her a happy birthday.
“That text went unanswered,” Rouse said.
Richard Zajko's sister-in-law, Roseanne Zajko, thanked police and prosecutors Wednesday, saying that her family has endured “countless days of darkness and despair" waiting for justice.
“We don't know yet if the trial will begin to heal the void in our lives and the ache in our hearts, but we do know that the detectives, the DA's office, and we, the family, have done everything possible to achieve justice for Rick and Rita.”
The prosecutor described their deaths as a crime that “goes beyond comprehension.”
“I can’t wrap my mind around or figure out what led to this point," he said. "We are clearly talking about someone that has gone down an unimaginably dark road and has led to a tragedy that just defies any sort of description.”
Ramer reported from Concord, New Hampshire.
FILE - This Jan. 29, 2025 photo shows a Chester Heights, Pa., home, the scene of the 2022 killing of Richard and Rita Zajko, (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - In this combination of undated photos provided by the Pennsylvania State Police, Richard Zajko, left, and his wife Rita Zajko, who police say were shot to death in their home in suburban Philadelphia on Dec. 31, 2022, are shown. (Pennsylvania State Police via AP, File)
FILE - In this image from video, Michelle Zajko, who is associated with a cultlike group known as Zizians that is linked to several deaths across the U.S., is escorted into court for a pretrial hearing on trespassing, gun and drug charges in Cumberland, Md., Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo, File)
