Michael V. Beall, Esq.
President and CEO,
Michael V. Beall, or Mike to all of his friends, is the eighth President and Chief Executive Officer of the Maryland and District of Columbia Credit Union Association which was founded January 1, 2006. The Maryland and District of Columbia Credit Union Association is the trade association for credit unions in Maryland and D.C. and represents the 188 credit unions in the region with more than 2 million members. Mike serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Credit Union Foundation, and on the Board of Consumer Credit Counseling Service of MD/DE.
Mike’s credit union career began at birth, as both his parents, Barbara Beall and the late Donald V. Beall and met while working at the Agriculture FCU, and spent their careers at NASA FCU. Credit unions have been the Beall family’s passion.
Mike has a Bachelors degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD (1987). During his college career Mike worked at NASA FCU as a teller and member service representative learning credit union member service on the front line. Mike received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, Richmond, VA in 1991. Mike is a member of the Virginia State Bar. While attending law school, Mike worked as a legal intern in the Regulatory Affairs Department of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA).
Following law school, Mike served as General Counsel and member of the executive management team at CommonWealth One FCU, Alexandria, VA (1991-1996). In 1992, Mike led efforts to establish the first partnership been his credit union and a newly established Polish credit union.
In 1996, Mike took on a new challenge as Executive Vice President of the North Carolina Credit Union League (1996-2000). Mike led North Carolina’s efforts to counter banker attacks in that state and appeared before the national media on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court when the negative ruling for credit union was announced. He stated “Banks won today, consumers lost.” The passage of the Credit Union Membership Access Act (1998) reversed that loss.
In 2000, Mike returned to the Maryland/DC area to become the first Manager of Governmental Affairs for the World Council of Credit Unions (2000-2004). Mike represented credit unions before Congress, and more than 30 national governments, including Belize, Bulgaria, Kenya, Korea, Macedonia, Philippines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uzbekistan, and Zambia.
Mike is the volunteer Executive Director of the Credit Union Development Education Program (CUDE), the only program dedicated solely to the promotion of credit union philosophy.