Robert F. Miailovich, Associate Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Division of Supervision (DOS), retired today after a 33-year career in bank examination and supervision. FDIC Chairman Ricki Helfer said: "Bob made many significant contributions over his long career of dedicated public service. He has been a key player for more than a decade in developing policies and regulations designed to promote the safety and soundness of insured depository institutions."

Cary H. Hiner will succeed Mr. Miailovich as Associate Director for Policy for DOS on April 28, 1996. In addition, Nancy E. Hall has been named Deputy Regional Director for DOS' Atlanta Region.

Nicholas J. Ketcha, Jr., Director of DOS, said: "Mr.Hiner and Ms. Hall are talented and experienced managers who have capably handled a wide variety of challenging assignments over the years. Their leadership skills will be of enormous benefit to the Division of Supervision."

In his new position, Mr. Hiner will be responsible for the planning and development of supervisory policies and programs and for accounting issues. He will serve as one of three associate directors in the division.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Hiner served as Assistant Director of the division's Policy Branch. He joined the FDIC in 1968 as a field examiner and subsequently was promoted to the positions of field office supervisor and senior banking analyst. In 1986, he was named Assistant Regional Director of the division's Kansas City, Missouri, office. From 1992 to 1995, he managed the Analysis and Monitoring Unit at headquarters.

Mr. Hiner received both a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Masters degree in Finance from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. He currently lives in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife Betty; they have three grown children.

Nancy E. Hall has been appointed Deputy Regional Director of the DOS Atlanta Region, which oversees FDIC's bank examination/supervision and corporate application programs in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Hall was Assistant Regional Director for DOS' New York Region, a position she held since 1989. Ms. Hall joined the FDIC in 1971 as a bank examiner trainee in the New York Region. She became a commissioned examiner in 1976 and a review examiner in 1980. In 1984, she transferred to the Division of Liquidation and was named Assistant Managing Liquidator in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1985 she was selected to participate in the FDIC's Executive Development Program. She returned to DOS' New York office in 1988.

Ms. Hall, a native of Augusta, Maine, is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, and the Commercial Lending School at the University of Oklahoma. Ms. Hall, who is married to Paul Fish, will soon be relocating to Atlanta.

Congress created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1933 to maintain public confidence in the nation's banking system. The FDIC insures deposits at the nation's 12,000 banks and savings associations and it promotes the safety and soundness of these institutions by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to which they are exposed.

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