Southside Bancshares, Inc. To Present At 2010 Gulf South Bank Conference

TYLER, Texas, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southside Bancshares, Inc. ("Southside" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: SBSI) will be presenting at the Gulf South Bank Conference in New Orleans, LA, on May 5, 2010.  Sam Dawson, President and Lee R. Gibson, CFO of Southside Bancshares, Inc. are scheduled to present on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at approximately 2:15 p.m. CT.

The presentation will be webcast and may be accessed at http://www.southside.com/investor.  The slide show will be available at 2:15 p.m. CT.  The presentation will be available on the Southside Bancshares, Inc. corporate website both live and in archive following the event.  The webcast may also be viewed live at the following URL:

http://cc.talkpoint.com/snlf001/050510a_jc/?entity=13_BUSB3O7

About Southside Bancshares, Inc.

Southside Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company with approximately $3.0 billion in assets that owns 100% of Southside Bank.  Southside Bank currently has 46 banking centers in Texas and operates a network of 49 ATMs.  To learn more about Southside Bancshares, Inc., please visit our investor relations website at www.southside.com/investor.  Our investor relations site provides a detailed overview of our activities, financial information and historical stock price data.  To receive e-mail notification of company news, events and stock activity, please register on the E-mail Notification portion of the website.  Questions or comments may be directed to Susan Hill at [phone], or [e-mail].

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements of other than historical fact that are contained in this document and in other written material, press releases and oral statements issued by or on behalf of the Company, a bank holding company, may be considered to be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of and subject to the protections of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, nor should they be relied upon as representing management's views as of any subsequent date.  These statements may include words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "anticipate," "appear," "believe," "could," "should," "may," "intend," "probability," "risk," "target," "objective," "plans," "potential," and similar expressions.  Forward-looking statements are statements with respect to the Company's beliefs, plans, expectations, objectives, goals, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions and future performance and are subject to significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements.  For example, discussions of the effect of the Company's expansion, including expectations of the potential profitability of such expansion, trends in asset quality and earnings from growth, and certain market risk disclosures, including the impact of potential interest rate increases, are based upon information presently available to management and are dependent on choices about key model characteristics and assumptions and are subject to various limitations.  By their nature, certain of the market risk disclosures are only estimates and could be materially different from what actually occurs in the future.  As a result, actual income gains and losses could materially differ from those that have been estimated.