Mark Brantley Named Chairman of MCU’s Board of Directors

February 18, 2010, New York City — Mark S. Brantley, Esq. has succeeded the late Willie James as Chairman of Municipal Credit Union’s Board of Directors. Mr. Brantley who had been serving as acting chair since October when Mr. James stood down for reasons of health, officially assumed the role of Chair in December.

He brings a great deal of professional and credit union experience to the position of Board Chairman of the $1.5 billion MCU. A member of the credit union since the late 1980’s, Mark was elected to MCU’s board of directors in 2005 where he served as Treasurer, chairman of the budget sub-committee and also as 1st Vice Chair. He also sits on the board of the African-American Credit Union Coalition (AACUC) Eastern Region Chapter, where he serves as Treasurer.

Currently, the Administrator of the Office of the County Clerk, in New York County his career in the Unified Court System of New York spans a period of more than 25 years. Mr. Brantley has been an administrative law judge for the City of New York’s Department of Finance, Adjudication Division. He is a member of the New York Bar and is also admitted to the U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts, and the United States Supreme Court. Mark holds a juris doctorate from New York Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York. Mark and his lovely wife, Erika, have been married for ten years and are the proud parents of a daughter, Sophia.

“I am grateful for the opportunity to serve MCU and its members as Board Chairman,” Mark said, “and I think that I represent what all credit union board members stand for,” he continued. “We know what our members want and need because we are members also, and as professionals and business people, we understand how to support management in the achievement of those goals in a balanced way.”

About Municipal Credit Union

Municipal Credit Union (MCU) is the oldest credit union in New York State and one of the oldest and largest in the country. Established in 1916 and headquartered in New York City, today MCU has assets of over $1.5 billion and offers a full range of financial services to over 316,000 members. With branches in New York City, Westchester and Long Island, members also have access to the credit union’s large and growing ATM network. Eligibility to open accounts at MCU is available to New York City and Yonkers municipal employees; state and federal employees who work in the five boroughs; health care professionals who work in New York State; members of select industry groups; employees of private colleges in New York City and private and public colleges in Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester; certain family members, and qualifying retirees. MCU is an equal opportunity lender and deposits are federally insured to at least $250,000 by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), a U.S. government agency. For more information about Municipal Credit Union, visit www.nymcu.org

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