NR 2000-27
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Robert M. Garsson
April 14, 2000

Anna Alvarez Boyd Named Acting Deputy Comptroller for Community
Affairs

WASHINGTON -- Anna Alvarez Boyd will become acting Deputy
Comptroller for Community Affairs following the departure May 5
of Jeanne K. Engel, who will become vice president for policy at
the National Association of Home Builders.

Ms. Alvarez Boyd currently supervises the OCC's Community
Reinvestment and Development Specialists (CRDs), who provide
technical assistance to examiners, bankers and their community
partners on community development issues.  The CRD unit, which
had been part of the Bank Supervision Policy department, will
become a division of  Community Affairs, which is part of the
office of the First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel.

"Our CRDs provide an important service, not just to our
examiners, but to national banks that are looking for ways to
help their communities," said Comptroller John D. Hawke, Jr.  "By
giving them an opportunity to work more closely with the rest of
our community development team, I'm confident that they will make
an even greater contribution to the national banking system."

Ms. Alvarez Boyd joined the OCC in 1995 as a Community
Reinvestment and Development specialist covering the agency's
western district states.  Two years later, she was given
responsibility for managing the national CRD team.  Prior to
coming to the OCC she was Director of Advocacy for Consumer
Action, a California-based consumer education and advocacy
organization.  She is a graduate of  San Francisco State
University.

"Jeanne  has done a superb job of making sure that community
development issues get the attention of senior management each
and every day," said Chief Counsel Julie L. Williams.  "Anna has
the background and the skills to continue that fine work."

                              

The OCC charters, regulates and examines approximately 2,400
national banks and 58 federal branches and agencies of foreign
banks in the United States, accounting for 57 percent of the
nation's banking assets.  Its mission is to ensure a safe, sound
and competitive national banking system that supports the citizens,
communities and economy of the United States.