Sterling Bancshares Declares Quarterly Dividend

HOUSTON, July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sterling Bancshares, Inc. , announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.015 per share of common stock at the meeting held on July 26, 2010. The dividend is payable August 20, 2010 to shareholders of record on August 6, 2010.

Sterling Bancshares, Inc. is a Houston-based bank holding company with total assets of $5.1 billion, which operates 57 banking centers in the greater metropolitan areas of Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. The Company's common stock is traded through the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "SBIB". For more information on Sterling Bancshares, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.banksterling.com/.

For More Information Contact: J. Downey Bridgwater, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, [phone] Zach L. Wasson, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, [phone]

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Sterling Bancshares, Inc.

CONTACT: J. Downey Bridgwater, Chairman, President & Chief Executive
Officer, [phone], or Zach L. Wasson, Executive Vice President & Chief
Financial Officer, [phone], both of Sterling Bancshares, Inc.

Web Site: http://www.banksterling.com/