BALTIMORE- Rod Staatz has been appointed by the board of directors of State Employees CU of Maryland to succeed Teresa Halleck as SECU's new president/CEO. Staatz's appointment was effective May 12. Halleck left SECU last year to work as president/CEO of the Golden 1 CU in California. She succeeded Stan Hollen who resigned to work at Liberty Enterprises as the company's president/CEO. Staatz has over 26 years of experience working in the financial services industry. Most recently he was president/CEO of University of Wisconsin CU in Madison. Prior to that, he held various executive positions at credit unions in Colorado, Washington and California such as executive vice president/COO of Bellco First FCU in Denver, Colo.