(Aug. 20, 2021) Continuing and new leadership for the state system was also seated during the NASCUS Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with S3.

Serving as officers for 2021-22 for the NASCUS Regulator Board are:

  • Chairman: Rose Conner (administrator, North Carolina Credit Union Division)
  • Vice Chairman: Janet Powell (chief of regulation and supervision – credit unions, Oregon Dept. of Consumer and Business Services)
  • Secretary/Treasurer: John Kohloff (commissioner, Texas Credit Union Department)

Joining the three as directors on the regulator board are:

  • Katie Averill (superintendent, Iowa Department of Commerce, Division of Credit Unions)
  • Yolanda Ford (deputy superintendent of banking for community and regional banks, New York State Department of Financial Services)
  • Steve Pleger (senior deputy commissioner, Georgia Department of Banking and Finance)
  • Charles Vice (commissioner, Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions)
  • Mary Ellen O’Neill (director, financial institution division, Connecticut Department of Banking)

Members of the regulator board serve three-year terms (Kolhoff and Ford were elected to new terms this year). However, one member is appointed to serve a one-year term by the chairman; O’Neill holds that seat for 2021-22.

Meanwhile, the NASCUS Credit Union Advisory Council also selected its leadership for the upcoming year:

  • Mike Williams, president and CEO, Colorado CU (Colo.), chairman;
  • Mike Ryan, senior vice president and general counsel, BECU, (Wash.), vice chairman;
  • Jeff Dahlstrom, president, Southeast Financial CU (Tenn.), secretary.

Joining the three as directors are:

  • Rick Stipa, immediate past chair and CEO, Trumark Financial CU (Pa.)
  • Amy Nelson, CEO, Point West CU (Oregon)
  • Cathie Tierney, president/CEO, Community First CU (Wis.)
  • Brian Wolfburg, president/CEO, Vystar CU (Fla.)
  • Amy Sink, CEO, Interra CU (Ind.)

Like the regulator board members, directors of the CUAC serve three-year terms (Williams, Nelson and Tierney won new terms in elections this year). However, like the regulator board, one member is appointed by the chairman to serve a one-year term; Sink was appointed for the 2021-22 term to that seat.

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NASCUS leadership, 2021-22

(June 18, 2021) Two state credit union CEOS have been named to the NASCUS Credit Union Advisory Council by Council Chairman Mike Williams, one completing a three-year term of a retired member of the group, and the second to a one-year term on the panel. Amy Nelson, president and CEO of PointWest Credit Union in Portland, Oregon, was named to complete the three-year term of former council member Patty Idol, who retired from Mountain CU in Waynesville, N.C. Meanwhile, Amy Sink of Interra Credit Union in Goshen, Ind., was named to the one-year appointment, succeeding Jeff Dahlstrom of Southeast Financial CU in Nashville. Dahlstrom remains on the council: he agreed to complete the unfinished three-year term held by Jason Boeasch, who recently became CEO of Kay Electric Cooperative in Blackwell, Okla. Congratulations to both Amys, and Jeff – and thanks for your service.