C. Dowd Ritter, 60, is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Regions Financial Corporation and leads the company’s Executive Council. Regions is a top U.S. bank-holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with nearly $140 billion in assets, operating almost 2 ,000 branches in 16 states.
Ritter began his banking career through the company‘s management training program in 1969. He was elected to positions of increasing responsibility including executive vice president of Retail Banking; senior executive vice president of the Trust Division; vice chairman of the Board; president and chief operating officer; then to his current position of president and chief executive officer.
A native of Birmingham , Ritter holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham , Ala. He is a graduate of the School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University, where he has been a past instructor.
Ritter was named Business Person of the Year in 2006 by The Birmingham Business Journal, CEO of the Year in 1998 by The Birmingham News, and was honored as the 1999 Humanitarian of the Year by the Alabama Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. He is currently on the boards of directors of Regions Financial Corporation, Alabama Power Company, Protective Life Corporation, UAB Health Services Foundation, Business Council of Alabama, Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, McWane, Inc., and is serving as the 2007 Honorary Chairman of the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Legacy of Leadership Campaign. Ritter is also on the UAB President’s Advisory Council, the boards of trustees of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham-Southern College , Leadership Birmingham, the board of visitors for the University of Alabama ’s College of Commerce and Business Administration, and the Chairman’s Circle of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife, Susan, served as honorary co-chairs of The New Ronald McDonald House Capital Campaign in 2006. Past service to the community includes the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Campaign Steering Committee, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Stabilization Steering Committee, campaign co-chairman for the American Cancer Society’s Five Points South Center and Hope Lodge and campaign chairman of the United Way of Central Alabama .
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