Exhibit 32.1

SECTION 906 CERTIFICATION

In connection with the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Porter Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) for the annual period ended December 31, 2011, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Maria L. Bouvette, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, do hereby certify, in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d), as applicable, of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

	PORTER BANCORP, INC.
Dated: March 30, 2012	By:	/s/ Maria L. Bouvette
		Maria L. Bouvette
		Chief Executive Officer

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