Leslie V. Godridge
Ms. Godridge served as Vice Chair and Co-Head of Corporate, Commercial, Commercial Real Estate, Capital Markets, Equipment Leasing & Treasury Management for U.S. Bancorp, a member of the Managing Committee, Asset-Liability Committee, Risk Committee, Executive Credit Management Committee and Strategic Investment Committee, and on the boards of the U.S. Bank Foundation and U.S. Bank, N.A., roles she held from 2016 until her retirement in 2020. She joined U.S. Bancorp in 2007 as Executive Vice President and Head of National Corporate, Institutional, Special Industries and Global Treasury Management. Previously, Ms. Godridge worked for The Bank of New York for 25 years as a Senior Executive Vice President in a variety of senior managerial roles in Corporate, Special & Financial Institutions, culminating as Combined Head of Consumer, Commercial, Private Banking and Asset Management. She was a member of the Executive, ALCO, and Credit Risk Committees and headed the CRA and Fiduciary Committees. Ms. Godridge was recognized for 13 of 14 years from 2005 to 2019 on the American Banker’s list of the Most Powerful Women in Banking. She is a director and Audit Committee member of National Integrity Life Insurance Co. and of Gerber Life Insurance Company, subsidiaries of Western Southern Financial Company. Ms. Godridge served as a Trustee and the Treasurer of the Museum of the City of New York for 18 years, and is now Trustee Emerita. She is a director of the Redwood Library & Athenaeum in Newport, RI and a corporator of the Newport Hospital affiliated with the Brown University Medical System also in Newport.