Bill Cheney
President and CEO
Brett Martinez, CEO, Redwood CU,
Santa Rosa, CA
California League Board Chairman
Wally Murray, Greater Nevada CU,
Carson City, NV
Nevada League Board Chairman |
Mark Klinkert
Senior Vice President, Professional Development, COO
Lucy Ito
Senior Vice President, CU Growth and Development
Bob Arnould
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Sylvia Fath
Senior Vice President, Business Services |
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CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE
Leo Shapiro (known as the father of the California credit union movement) and other credit union leaders—representing more than 25 credit unions in operation in 1933—gathered in Fresno to give birth to an idea; the California Credit Union League. That was the start of the League's successful 75-year-history in California.
The League shared its first headquarters with East Bay Postal Credit Union on the second floor of the Oakland Post Office. Executive secretary John Moore, also treasurer of East Bay Postal CU, guided the League's first operations.
By 1940, the League had 246 members; there were 400 credit unions in California. At the following year's annual meeting, the San Francisco Credit Union Digest was adopted as the official flagship publication of the League. Eventually, the name of the publication was changed to Credit Union Digest.
Throughout the years, the League's headquarters moved from the Bay Area to Pomona (in 1964) to its current location in Rancho Cucamonga (in 1999). It has launched a number of credit union organizations, including Western Corporate Federal Credit Union (in 1977, then known as the California Central Federal Credit Union), a corporate credit union; CO-OP Financial Services (in 1981, then known as CU-ATM Cooperatives, Inc.), designed to give credit unions access to electronic financial services; and CU West Mortgage, Inc. (2003), a mortgage lending company formed as a partnership between the League and Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union.
Today—as it has throughout its history—the League's core services of leadership, advocacy, education, and information help it fulfill its mission of providing services to members within a framework of innovation and cooperation so credit unions and their members will enjoy the security and ownership privileges of a vital financial cooperative unique within the financial services industry. |
NEVADA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE
The Nevada Credit Union League was formed in 1969. Darrel R. Daines was elected as the League's first president and the first board of directors was formed. Later that same year, Glen A. Reese assumed the role as the League's managing director and the Maryland Parkway League offices opened.
The League's first annual meeting was held in 1970; the same year the first issue of its flagship publication, Nevada Nuggets, was published. In 1975, the League celebrated the passage of the state's credit union law. The first state-chartered credit union was Nevada Central CU.
Between the years of 1976 through 1990, the League becomes fully self-supporting, CU Plaza becomes its new headquarters, a credit union division is formed within the state's Department of Commerce, membership in Nevada credit unions increases, and the Nevada CU Political Action Committee is formed.
Then, in September 1995, the California Credit Union League board of directors approved a management services agreement between the two leagues—which allowed the two to remain separate entities, with the California League providing a range of services to Nevada credit unions. The following month, the 15 credit union members of the Nevada League voted unanimously to support the agreement, which went into effect January 1, 1996. At the time, then California League President and CEO David L. Chatfield (who retired in 2006) became president and CEO of both leagues. Nevada League President and CEO Glenn Reese (who passed away in 2003) stayed on as a consultant.
The Nevada League still maintains its own board of directors and governmental affairs committee. It also remains an active presence in the political realm. |
