CUNA Regulatory Compliance eSchool: Update
Instructors

Instructors

  Mary-Lou Heighes, CUCE

Mary-Lou has been involved in the credit union movement since 1989. She has been involved in all areas of credit union operations: general operations, marketing, collections, lending, and compliance. She is a CUNA certified Credit Union Compliance Expert (CUCE) and is president of Compliance Plus, Inc., which provides strategic planning, training, compliance, and consulting services to credit unions. Mary-Lou was the senior research and information consultant for the California/Nevada Credit Union League for seven years, and since founding her company in 2000, has provided training for credit unions and leagues around the country. Prior to her tenure at the league, she spent five years in the credit union trenches.

  Woody Hodgdon, CUCE, BSACS

Woody is a Credit Union Compliance Expert (CUCE), Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Specialist (BSACS), and is the national compliance manager for Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union (formerly HP Employees FCU) in Palo Alto, California. Addison Avenue FCU serves employees of Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, Philips Electronics, and several other related employers in the United States and Puerto Rico. Prior to accepting his current job, Woody spent 17 years at HP Rocky Mountain Federal Credit Union in Loveland, Colorado which eventually merged with the other HP credit unions to form Addison Avenue FCU. He spent three years as an agent for CUNA Mutual in northern Colorado prior to starting his management career with credit unions. Woody has been involved in credit union management, operations, marketing, and compliance issues for more than 30. He is a graduate of Western CUNA Management School in Pomona, California. He is a 1980's graduate of CUNA's Regulatory Compliance School and attends annual update sessions to stay current. Woody has lectured to many groups about bankruptcy, the Americans with Disabilities Act, financial counseling, home banking, and risk-based lending. Woody is a charter member of the National Credit Union Institute and earned the Dean's List with Highest Honors designation.

  Joy Lee

Joy recently assumed the position of director of supervision in the office of examination and insurance with the National Credit Union Association, where she started as an examiner in Dallas, TX in 1987. She has served the agency in several positions including supervision analyst, problem case officer, supervisory examiner, associate regional director of operations for Region 2, and associate regional director of programs.

  Ty Parker

Tyler is a nationally recognized speaker on financial institution operational and compliance topics, who over the last 20 years has taught compliance programs for 45 Credit Union Leagues, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), and numerous credit unions and financial institutions.

  R. Todd Sherpy

Todd is a founding partner in The Sherpy & Jones Law Firm P.A, of Lexington, South Carolina. Todd and his team are dedicated to serving the legal needs of credit unions and have attained a national reputation for their work in legal-auditing, compliance, and bankruptcy/collections. Todd has also authored CUNA's RegTraC and VAP training modules and serves as editor of Credit Union Legal News©.

  Kathy Thompson

Kathy is senior vice president and associate general counsel for the Credit Union National Association. For 20 years she has represented credit unions before the National Credit Union Administration, the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and other federal agencies. Kathy headed CUNA's staff efforts to get the Credit Union Campaign for Consumer Choice up and running in the fall of 1996 and worked exclusively on the Campaign until November 1997. She is currently focusing her efforts on increasing CUNA's compliance information to leagues and credit unions, and on providing assistance in the drafting of legislation and the preparation of testimony for Congress. Kathy appears regularly before credit union groups to discuss current congressional and regulatory events and present compliance seminars.

Prior to joining CUNA in 1980, she was government relations counsel for the American Bankers Association, concentrating on regulations and legislation involving trust, securities, and tax law. Previously, she assisted ABA's economic advisor, specializing in the laws governing competing financial institutions.

  Suzanne Yashewski

Suzanne is the vice president of regulatory compliance & legal affairs, and she has served as legal counsel for the Texas Credit Union League (TCUL) since 2001. With her legal background, Suzanne assists credit unions in understanding complex legal and regulatory compliance issues through TCUL's Information Central. Information Central offers a hotline for all credit union staff, a compliance newsletter, a compliance web site, an online compliance manual, training, and more. Suzanne also serves as a credit union advocate in the regulatory process as well as legislative process.

Prior to working with credit unions, Suzanne practiced employment law. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas and its employment law section, the American Bar Association and its credit union committee of the business law section, and the Austin Bar Association and its financial institutions section.