The Most Powerful Women in Banking

As general counsel, Patterson leads roughly 1,300 attorneys and legal professionals across the bank. She was formerly the general counsel at TD Bank Group. 

Rodeheaver has been at the bank for more than 30 years. She started as a trust administrator, and 2004, she moved to the chief financial officer role, before becoming CEO in 2018.

Stewart's efforts to populate the C-suite with women have been successful: Three out of Sound's five-person C-suite are women, and a large portion of its retail management staff are women.

The bank specializes in commercial real estate lending, and Riel said the sector is experiencing "whole-industry chaos."

Before being tapped as the head of Wells Fargo's auto division, Sanders was head of its auto transformation team.