Pinnacle Financial Partners has recruited another experienced local lender, this one from Bank of America, as part of a big talent push launched last spring.

Willie Diehl, most recently a Bank of America senior vice president who had been with that bank for 25 years, started work at Pinnacle Monday. Diehl joined BofA in 1987 after a move to Commerce Union from the former First American.

Diehl, who earned an economics degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, sits on the board of the Nashville Sports Council and the Predators Foundation.

His hiring comes a few weeks after Pinnacle scooped up a former SunTrust executive to market to law firms. The $5 billion downtown-based bank also has since the summer recruited senior lenders from JPMorgan, First Tennessee and others as part of a market-share push reminiscent of its early growth days.