MISSOULA, Mont. Missoula FCU announced the hiring of Jack Lawson, chief operating officer at Self-Help FCU in California, as president and CEO of the $400 million credit union.
Lawson will succeed Gary Clark who is retiring after 18 years heading the state’s second biggest credit union.
Lawson has been involved in the credit union movement since 1999 when he began working as CEO for a community development credit union in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2008, Lawson has been the COO for $600 million Self-Help FCU, the west coast affiliate of leading community development credit union North Carolina’s Self-Help CU.
Self-Help FCU is a five-year-old conglomeration of half-dozen troubled CDCUs in the Bay Area that was created by the Durhma, N.C.-based Center for Community Self-Help, which has also created a better known state charter, Self-Help CU.
Lawson will take the helm of Missoula Federal on September 9.
