The OCC has announced that Blake Paulson has been named the next senior deputy comptroller for midsize and community bank supervision, effective in December. He will succeed Toney Bland, who will retire from the agency in January. Paulson currently serves as deputy comptroller for the central district.

In his new role, Paulson will oversee a team of more than 1,500 employees responsible for supervising approximately 1,100 community and midsize national banks and federal savings associations that provide banking services to consumers, business and communities across the country. In addition, he will serve on the OCC’s Executive Committee and sit on various governance committees that oversee critical agency functions and help align its activity to its strategic goals and objectives.

Before becoming deputy comptroller for the Central District, Paulson served as associate deputy comptroller and oversaw nine field offices. Prior to that, he was an assistant deputy comptroller for midsize bank supervision and was responsible for a portfolio of national banks with total assets between $10 billion and $30 billion. Paulson joined the OCC in 1986 in the Sioux Falls office and holds a bachelor of science in business administration from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Read more.