Carrie Hunt (President/CEO)

Carrie Hunt is a longtime advocate for credit unions and a lifelong member. She leads the League's efforts to promote credit union success through advocacy, business forward solutions and collaboration. Carrie believes that credit unions provide the absolute best in financial services and works with the team at the league to help credit unions help their members. Goal-oriented and results-focused, she is passionate about credit union success.

She previously served as Executive Vice President of Government Affairs and General Counsel for the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU), and managed the association's legislative, political, regulatory, compliance and research divisions. She was named to The Hill newspaper’s top Washington lobbyist lists in 2019 and 2020.

A graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park and William and Mary School of Law, the bulk of her career has been spent in roles related to consumer finance and financial services law, credit union’s regulatory landscape, and lobbying lawmakers. She also has served on the Consumer Federation of America board and is a Vice Chair of the Credit Union Committee of the American Bar Association.

Before joining NAFCU, Hunt worked as the legal counsel to Massachusetts state Sen. Andrea Nuciforo, Jr., Senate Chairman of the Joint Committee on Banks and Banking. Hunt also worked as a law clerk to a federal judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.