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Charlotte Corley 
CSBS chairman
Commissioner, Mississippi Dept. of Banking & Consumer Finance

The Light Within Me by Ainsley Earhardt

Albert Forkner
CSBS immediate past chairman
Commissioner, Wyoming Division of Banking

Books by Tina Ann Forkner

Bret Afdahl
CSBS chair-elect
Director, South Dakota Division of Banking

The Odyssey of Echo Company : The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by Doug Stanton

Kevin Hagler
CSBS vice chairman
Commissioner, Georgia Dept. of Banking & Finance

The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel by Garth Stein
Melanie Hall
CSBS treasurer
Commissioner, Montana Division of Banking & Financial Institutions
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

Bryan Schneider
CSBS secretary
Secretary, Illinois Dept. of Financial & Professional Regulation

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Greg Gonzales
Commissioner, Tennessee Dept. of Financial Institutions

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark Lee Gardner

My Father's Business: The Small Town Values that Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company by Cal Turner, Jr.

Hazen "Kiki" Cuyler: A Baseball Biography by Ronald T. Waldo

Charles Vice
Commissioner, Kentucky Dept. of Financial Institutions

The Bible: Genesis

A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter

Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin

Gerald Little
Commissioner, New Hampshire Banking Dept.

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King

The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

Lise Kruse
Commissioner, North Dakota Dept. of Financial Institutions

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

The End of Average: Unlocking Our Potential by Embracing What Makes Us Different by Todd Rose

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson 

Mick Thompson
Commissioner, Oklahoma Banking Dept.

Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir by Charlie Daniels

Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young

Katie Boskin
Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs, North Carolina Office of the Commissioner of Banks

How It Ends: From You to the Universe by Chris Impey

This Time It's Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff

Dorsey Hall
Non-Depository Division Director, Kentucky Dept. of Financial Institutions

Books that Dorsey has written:

McCall's Hot Potato Caper by Dorsey Hall 

Randi's Candy Caper: Another McCall Mystery by Dorsey Hall

Kelly Lammers
Deputy Director for Financial Institutions, Nebraska Dept. of Banking & Finance

The Thief in Your Company: Protect Your Organization from the Financial and Emotional Impacts of Insider Fraud by Tiffany Couch
Merrily Gerrish
General Counsel, Massachusetts Division of Banks
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
Rebecca Moore
Industry Manager, New Mexico Regulation & Licensing Dept.
Everything that Remains: A Memoir by the Minimalists by Joshua Fields Milburn

Bill Matthews
Executive Vice President, State Regulatory Registry, CSBS

The Alchemist by Deckle Edge

Tom Harlow 
Executive Vice President, Finance, CSBS

1984 by George Orwell

Buz Gorman
General Counsel, CSBS

It: A Novel by Stephen King

Mike Stevens
Senior Executive Vice President, CSBS

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in 15th Century Florence by Tim Parks

Jim Kurtzke
Vice President, Communications, CSBS

An Unfinished Life: John Kennedy 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek

Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution by Brian Kenny

Sebastian Monet
Vice President, Learning & Development, CSBS

Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games by Lopez Lomong

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies by Charles G. Koch

Paul Ferree
Senior Director, Data Analysis, CSBS

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Alisha Sears
Policy & Supervision Analyst, CSBS

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

Americanah: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Charles Hill
Senior Director, Information Security & Engineering, CSBS

American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman

Financial Organization and the Economic System by Harold G. Moulton