Dollar Associates is discontinuing publication of Who's Who in America's Credit Unions after only one edition.
The book, which included profiles of 8,804 credit union professionals and volunteers, was published by a subsidiary of the Alabama-based consulting firm. Former NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar is a principal partner of the firm.
"Who's Who is a long overdue recognition program for the credit union industry," Dollar said in a statement. "But it takes a lot of time and resources to put out a quality annual publication like we were committed to providing through Who's Who. We just couldn't justify continuing to put in hours on Who's Who when our bread and butter consulting business is growing exponentially. Our decision was to keep our focus on what we do best-helping credit unions and the organizations that serve them."
Dollar said the remaining inventory would be discounted significantly with price reductions as much as 70%, and all recognition items will be sold on a "first come, first served" basis through the Who's Who Web site at www.wwacu.org.

Henmueller New CEO

Illiana Financial Credit Union has tapped James Henmueller as its new president/CEO.
Henmueller replaces longtime President/CEO Walter E. Kopacz who retired after 32 years of service.
Henmueller has almost 25 years of senior executive management experience in the credit union industry, including serving as president/CEO of Chief Financial Federal Credit Union and CEO of International UAW Federal Credit Union prior to joining Illiana Financial.
During his time at Chief Financial FCU, Henmueller is credited with changing the organization's performance, structure and culture. As a result of his changes, the credit union achieved the highest regulatory ranking for safety and soundness while increasing its field of membership, asset size and capital ratio.
The Claumet City, Ill.-based Illiana Financial credit union has over $160 million in assets.