2024 Most Powerful Women in Banking NEXT

Arrington, who has an MBA and a law degree with a concentration in financial transactions, is the chief risk officer for the $753 million-asset bank.

Dupuis started in banking as a high schooler. She is now the retail banking director at $16.4 billion-asset First United.

Deckelman is a managing director running the global front-end financing and short-term interest rate desk, known as STIR. She oversees 34 people with responsibility for sales around the world. 

After a dozen years with the bank, Davis is now a managing director and senior relationship manager within PNC Bank's energy group, which ranks among the top revenue-generating businesses for the bank.

Comfort began as a teller at Nevada State Bank, a subsidiary of Zions Bancorp. She's been promoted several times since then and is currently NSB's small business manager.

Chuck is the director of commercial deposits, revenue and liquidity at Comerica in Dallas. Overall, she is responsible for the product team, commercialization for liquidity and revenue strategy.

Bartlett joined BMO in 2007 as an analyst working with large diversified companies, and has stayed at the bank since in its Chicago office, now also supervising bankers in Toronto and New York. 

The $5,000 scholarship from American Banker and Discover is for high school seniors in New York City who are the first generation in their family to attend college. The deadline to apply is May 8, 2024.

Call for submissions for women 40 years and younger who are rising stars at their bank or financial institution.