(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

(March 12, 2021) Two officers were named this week to the NASCUS Credit Union Advisory Council (CUAC), which represents the credit union members of the association in leadership. Mike Ryan, general counsel of BECU in Tukwila, Wash., was elected vice chairman of the CUAC and Jeff Dahlstrom, president of Southeast Financial Credit Union in Franklin, Tenn., was elected the CUAC secretary/financial advisor. Mike Williams, of Colorado Credit Union in Denver chairs the CUAC. Meanwhile, the NASCUS Regulator Board (which represents the regulator members of the association) approved the appointment of Patti Perkins, director of the Idaho Department of Finance to the NASCUS Audit Committee.