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COMMUNITY NEWS New Credit Chief at Santa Cruz County Bank

Susan Just has joined Santa Cruz County Bank as executive vice president and chief credit officer, succeeding Creedance Shaw, who founded the loan and credit administration departments when the bank opened in 2004 and left in March to pursue other interests. Her 30-year career includes credit portfolio management of loan portfolios up to $8.5 billion. She has

Susan Just held senior credit roles at JPMorgan Chase, Northern Trust, and Bank of Montreal.

Assets at Santa Cruz County Bank top $1.5 billion. With Krista Snelling bank president and CEO, women fill two top leadership roles in an industry historically dominated by men.

Early in her career, with JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors, Just established herself as a proficient underwriter of commercial, corporate, and securitized transactions, managing multi-billiondollar transactions. After 17 years at JPMorgan, she changed her focus to community banking.

As senior credit officer at First Chicago Bank & Trust, a $1.1 billion community bank, she was responsible for integrating and streamlining the credit functions of its merged predecessor banks. At Northern Trust, she managed Loan Review and led the Global Compliance Testing functions. She was lead credit officer responsible for the $8.5 billion retail credit portfolio at TCF Bank. More recently, she managed the ALLL function (allowance for loan and lease losses) at Bank of Montreal, and during the pandemic worked as a credit portfolio manager for a new financial technology firm.

She obtained her master’s from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Loyola University of Chicago.

She calls herself a former competitive sailor.

“I’m honored to join the executive team and look forward to contributing to the bank’s growth and continued success,” she said. “I am drawn to the Monterey Bay area and am very excited to become part of the local community.”

She is based out of the Santa Cruz headquarters. n

Want to Vote in Gov Recall?

By Jondi Gumz

The recall election on Gov. Gavin Newsom begun in June 2020 by Orrin Heatlie, 52, of Folsom, a retired sheriff’s sergeant, will be Tuesday, Sept. 14.

Already 60 candidates have included, including Newsom. Candidates have until July 16 to enter the race.

A Santa Cruz County resident who is unregistered has until Aug. 30 to register to vote, according to Santa Cruz County Clerk Tricia Webber, who is in charge of local elections after the retirement of Gail Pellerin.

If you miss that deadline, you can still vote if you vote in person and do it at the county Election office, 701 Ocean St., Santa Cruz — where you must pay for parking — or take advantage of same-day registration on Sept. 14.

A judicial decision is expected Friday on whether Gov. Newsom will be listed as a Democrat on the ballot. His campaign staff, in filing, did not include that designation, and the Secretary of State, appointed by Newsom, said only a court could allow a change, so Newsom sued.