Key Leader Biographies:
Richard C. Stearns
Director, Enforcement and Compliance Division
Richard C. Stearns is Director of the Enforcement and Compliance Division for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) Law Department.
In this capacity, he is primarily responsible for formulating supervisory and enforcement strategies and conducting enforcement proceedings and related
litigation with regard to national banks and institution-affiliated parties of national banks.
Prior to joining the OCC in 2006, Mr. Stearns was Deputy Chief Counsel for Enforcement at the Office of Thrift Supervision, and previously served as
an Assistant Director, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
He received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a bachelor's degree in Political Science (with honors, Phi Beta
Kappa) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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