The principals of Dollar Associates, LLC are former NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar and former NCUA Chief of Staff and Counsel Kirk Cuevas.

Dennis Dollar is the principal partner in Dollar Associates, LLC, a full-service consulting group focusing on credit unions and the organizations that serve them.

Mr. Dollar's background is extensive in the credit union and public policy arenas.

Dennis Dollar was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board in 2001. Mr. Dollar had served on the three-member Board since being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1997, having been a member of the NCUA Board during the most far-reaching period of legislative and regulatory change in the history of the American credit union movement. As part of the NCUA Board, Mr. Dollar oversaw the making of all regulations for federal credit unions and the administration of the federal insurance fund covering approximately 9500 federal and state chartered credit unions in the United States.

In his capacity as NCUA Chairman, Mr. Dollar also served as Vice Chairman of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). The FFIEC is charged by the U.S. Congress with the responsibility for coordinating the examination and supervision programs of the five federal financial regulatory agencies.

A former two-term member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, Mr. Dollar was elected at age 22 to the House in 1975, at that time the youngest legislator in the state and one of the youngest in history. During his eight years in the House of Representatives, he won numerous awards for his leadership on issues ranging from open government to tax and education policy.

Immediately prior to being appointed to the NCUA Board, Mr. Dollar served from 1991 to 1997 as President and CEO of what is now the Gulf Coast Community Federal Credit Union, at that time the Gulfport Veterans Administration Federal Credit Union which was a $32 million institution serving more than 12,000 members and 150 employer groups along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

During his credit union career, his credit union won the national Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Award from CUNA for its asset category and numerous local and state growth and service awards. Mr. Dollar was also a top five finalist for credit union CEO of the Year by Credit Union Times, a leading credit union industry publication, in 1994. His awards include a 2003 induction into the Mississippi Credit Union Hall of Fame and the Credit Union Executive Society (CUES) Hall of Fame, as well as receiving the prestigious 2004 Ambassador Award from the World Council of Credit Unions for his leadership in the international credit union movement and the 2005 Anchor Award from the National Credit Union Foundation for outstanding contributions to the credit union movement.

Active in a number of civic organizations, Mr. Dollar has served, among others, on Boards of the March of Dimes, United Way, Boys and Girls Club and local Chamber of Commerce. He is a Baptist deacon and Sunday School teacher.

Mr. Dollar received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi. He and his wife Janie have two children.

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Kirk Cuevas is a partner in Dollar Associates, LLC, a full-service consulting group focusing on credit unions and the organizations that serve them.

Mr. Cuevas' background is extensive in the areas of credit union law and regulation, insurance law, and public policy.

An attorney by profession, Kirk Cuevas served as Chief of Staff and Counsel to National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board Chairman Dennis Dollar from 2001-2004. Prior to Mr. Dollar's designation as NCUA Chairman in February 2001, Mr. Cuevas served as Executive Assistant to Mr. Dollar in his role as a member of the NCUA Board from 1997-2001. In both of these positions, he was Mr. Dollar's foremost credit union policy advisor.

Mr. Cuevas was instrumental in the drafting, enactment and implementation of significant NCUA policy revisions in the areas of field of membership, investment policy, lending regulations, corporate credit unions and agency restructuring. He was at the forefront of the efforts to put into place Chairman Dollar's successful initiatives such as RegFlex, Access Across America, AIM (Accountability In Management), FOM updates, member business loan modernization, overseas branching and others.

Having an extensive background in insurance litigation prior to his appointment by Mr. Dollar to his position with NCUA, Mr. Cuevas was a corporate insurance attorney who managed the day-to-day operations of a 14-county region for the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from 1994 to 1997. He began his career with State Farm Insurance in 1991 as a claims representative/attorney in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Mr. Cuevas is a licensed attorney and a member of the Mississippi Bar. A former college instructor teaching law courses at the undergraduate level, he has been a regular presenter on credit union law and regulation at national, regional, state and local conferences. Labeled by Credit Union Times, a leading credit union publication, as "the guy at the shoulder of the Chairman" through his successful tenure at NCUA, Mr. Cuevas has been recognized as an authority on credit union field of membership issues. He has personally reviewed for approval hundreds of community charter conversions for federal credit unions at the Board level.

He has been active in a number of civic and community organizations, including the Combined Federal Campaign and the Carpenter's Shelter homeless center in Alexandria, Virginia. He was selected as an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1996 by the Outstanding Young Americans Society. Mr. Cuevas is a Baptist Deacon and is actively involved in his local church.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1988 and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1991. A native of Gulfport, Mississippi, Mr. Cuevas now resides in Birmingham, Alabama, with his wife, Alicia.

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