Gary Soukenik, president/CEO of Seven Seventeen Credit Union, added his voice Monday to the chorus of credit union CEOs eager to become enthusiastic advocates for the industry on the newly formed Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve.

CUNA, NAFCU and several bank groups are asking a federal judge if they can file a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of a bank that is challenging the constitutionality of the law, giving the Federal Reserve the power to regulate interchange.

Twenty employees from EECU raised funds and participated in Junior Achievement’s annual Crazy Bowl fundraiser.

Eight months after the president/CEO of Credit Union of Atlanta was fatally shot by an undercover sheriff’s detective in New Jersey, the case is scheduled to go before a grand jury by May.