BancorpSouth Bank’s Board of Directors appointed Charlotte N. Corley of Starkville as a director of the company, effective Oct. 28. Corley is the former commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance (DBFC).
Corley retired from the DBCF in January after 34 years of distinguished service. She began her career in the banking industry at Great Southern National Bank prior to joining the DBCF as a bank examiner in 1985. She rose swiftly through the ranks of the DBCF and became the banking division director in 2000, then deputy commissioner in 2013 and finally commissioner in 2014. During her tenure as commissioner, assets of state-chartered banks in Mississippi increased by nearly 50 percent from $60 billion in 2014 to almost $90 billion in 2019.
Corley earned a bachelor of business administration degree in banking and finance from Mississippi State University. She is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University and the American Bankers Association’s National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University.
Corley has been instrumental in shaping the banking industry through her work with the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), where she served as chairman from 2018 to 2019. She is a former member of CSBS’s State Supervisory Processes and Technology Committees and the former chair of its Education Foundation. Corley also served as a member of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Task Force on Examiner Education and was a longstanding member of the Interagency Supervisory Processes Committee.
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