ST. PAUL, Minn.—Mark Cummins, president/CEO of the Minnesota CU Network, has been elected chairman of the Credit Union Legislative Action Council, the PAC for CUNA. Cummins was also recently elevated to serve as second vice chairman of the American Association of Credit Union Leagues (AACUL) executive board, and he serves as chair of CUNA’s Cooperative Alliances Committee and as board secretary of the CUNA Strategic Services board of directors.
Meanwhile, the National CU Foundation has held its board elections. Newly elected were Bill Cheney, president/CEO of SchoolsFirst FCU in Santa Ana, Calif.; Patrick La Pine, president/CEO of the League of Southeastern Credit Unions and Affiliates in Tallahassee, Fla.; and Larry Middleman, president/CEO of CU Business Group, LLC in Portland, Ore.
Cheney will be filling a vacant board seat, while Middleman is taking a seat most recently held by John Gregoire, president of The ProCon Group in Madison, Wis.
La Pine will be the American Association of Credit Union Leagues (AACUL) representative, replacing NCUF Vice Chairman John Radebaugh, president/CEO of the Carolinas Credit Union League in Greensboro, N.C., who isn’t eligible to serve another term. New officer elections will take place at NCUF’s January board meeting.
Also re-elected at the recent board meeting were Edwin Williams, president/CEO of Discovery Federal Credit Union in Wyomissing, Pa.; Laida Garcia, president/CEO of floridacentral Credit Union in Tampa, Fla.; and Christopher Roe, SVP, corporate and legislative Affairs, CUNA Mutual Group in Madison, Wis.