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Inspirational Women

NNE MCCLURE HAS I was still coming up short important always to give it serve their members/cus-
Aan impressive title as and really wanted to make your all, because you never tomers. In fact members
Chief Operating Officer more money. She suggest- know who is watching. “I are at the top of the org
of Cabrillo Credit Union. ed that I could if I applied found out about a position chart in a credit union.
However, the title pales in for a job with the bank. So, at the credit union through That’s very different than
comparison to how impres- I took her advice and I did. somebody that I used to a bank, who is in business
sive the woman is. Anne I was hired, and the rest is work with at the bank, for its stockholders, and the
has spent 26 years with history.” again reinforcing my belief customers aren’t even on
Cabrillo alone and sever- the org chart.”
al additional years in the Anne joined Cabrillo
banking industry. A native in 1992. “I came onboard
of Southern California, as the research compliance
she attended Poway High and training manager, and
School and didn’t leave the within a couple of years I
San Diego area until she took over marketing and
went away to college at UC was juggling those different
Santa Cruz for a year, com- responsibilities. A few
pleting her college degree at years after that, human
UC Irvine in a total of 3 ½ resources became more
years. The mother of three, of a need in the organiza-
Anne has shared her work tion, and I took that on as
ethics with her children well. I was wearing many
who all worked throughout different hats, which was
school. “I never believed kind of fun. In a small
that my kids should not organization like Cabrillo
work. You have to be able was at the time, I never was
to multi-task in real life, so I bored handling a number
felt it was a good life lesson of departments. As we grew
for them to work their way it became evident that we
through school.” needed an additional body,
With a career working and I was given a choice
her way up the corporate whether I wanted to go to
ladder in the banking the marketing side or the
industry, I was curious if human resources side. I
this was the field in which had done marketing for a
she had hoped to spend her while, so I chose Human
career. “I didn’t come into Photo by Dawn Nicoli/Nicoli Productions Resources which included
banking as a career move. Anne McClure training, an area I loved.”
Ironically, it was at the Cabrillo has been in
suggestion of a teller who I existence since 1955. They
happened to start a conver- By Judith A Habert began as a credit union that
sation with while cashing served the Border Patrol
my check from the two jobs What Anne has al- that you are always making and their original name
that I held in college. She ways believed is that no an impression regardless was “Border Federal Credit
noted that I was working matter what position you of the position you hold. Union.” In 1976 The Credit
multiple jobs and com- hold in a company that He referred me to their Union changed its name
mented. I jokingly said I you should always work CEO at the time. She was from Border Federal Credit
would work more if I could. as hard as you can and introduced to the credit Union to Cabrillo Federal
I was currently paying my stand out as the best in that union system and decided Credit Union. In 2003 they
room and board to attend position. Whether you that this was a change she merged with Sharp Fed-
college while my parents are a high-level executive wanted to make. “Credit eral Credit Union, so they
took care of my tuition, but or a beginning teller, it is unions are in business to have a large contingency of

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