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-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, NsCOR20XIJOUBXej5qzaYG995AqutYBKcHw7OzkPBNHb1XJQug2YRzKa7Dzrr+3V Xd5KzS11SeeRvvZRNdTWCQ== 0000896595-08-000134.txt : 20080401 0000896595-08-000134.hdr.sgml : 20080401 20080401161133 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000896595-08-000134 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080401 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080401 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080401 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AMERICANWEST BANCORPORATION CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000726990 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022] IRS NUMBER: 911259511 STATE OF INCORPORATION: WA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 41 W. RIVERSIDE AVENUE STREET 2: SUITE 400 CITY: SPOKANE STATE: WA ZIP: 99201-3631 BUSINESS PHONE: (509)467-6993 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 41 W. RIVERSIDE AVENUE STREET 2: SUITE 400 CITY: SPOKANE STATE: WA ZIP: 99201-3631 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: UNITED SECURITY BANCORPORATION DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Simmons Jay Brian CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001430877 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-18561 FILM NUMBER: 08729546 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 801-733-9999 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 8285 TERRACE DRIVE CITY: SANDY STATE: UT ZIP: 84093 3 1 sim38.xml X0202 3 2008-04-01 0 0000726990 AMERICANWEST BANCORPORATION AWBC 0001430877 Simmons Jay Brian 41 W. RIVERSIDE AVE., SUITE 400 SPOKANE WA 99201 0 1 0 0 EVP and General Counsel Stock Option (right to buy) 8.72 2015-04-01 Common Stock 5000.00 D This option will vest over 5 years, 20% each year on the anniversary date. By: Cliff E. Spencer, Attorney in Fact 2008-04-01 EX-24 2 poa.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY -- Converted by SECPublisher 3.1.0.1, created by BCL Technologies Inc., for SEC Filing

Power of Attorney

Know all by these presents, that Jay Brian Simmons, the undersigned (the "Reporting Person"), hereby constitutes and appoints Gordon E. Crim and Cliff E. Spencer, or either of them, as the Reporting Person’s attorneys-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the Reporting Person, as a shareholder of AmericanWest Bancorporation (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4 or 5 and Schedule 13G (the “Forms”)timely file such forms in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform all acts for and on behalf of the Reporting Person which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such the Forms and timely file such Forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney in fact, may be of benefit to and in the best interest of, or legally required by, the Reporting Person.

The Reporting Person hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the Reporting Person might or could do if personally present, with full power of Substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorneys-in-fact substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by the virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The Reporting Person acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the Reporting Person, are not assuming, nor is the company assuming, any of the Reporting Persons responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the Reporting Person is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, 5 and Schedule 13G with respect to the Reporting Person's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the Reporting Person in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Reporting Person has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 26th day of March, 2008.

/s/ Jay Brian Simmons
Jay Brian Simmons

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