President & CEO

Kathleen Murphy

Kathleen Murphy joined the Maryland Bankers Association in 1999 as President and CEO of the only professional association representing commercial banks and thrifts in Maryland. Founded in 1896, the mission of the Maryland Bankers Association is to make Maryland banks stronger and more successful.

With a career spanning state and national banking trade associations, Kathleen served for 13 years as Director of Community Banking for the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., as Director of Communications for the Ohio Bankers Association and in the Financial Card Services Division of Bank One, in Columbus.

Among many volunteer positions, Kathleen serves on the Executive Committee of the Maryland Coalition for Financial Literacy, on the State Comptroller's Business Advisory Council and on the Maryland State Department of Education's Financial Literacy Advisory Council.  She is also past president of the Maryland Government Relations Association and former member of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Association of CPAs. Kathleen was elected by her peers as Chair of the 50-state Alliance of State Bankers Associations and served on the Board of Directors of the American Bankers Association 2009-2010.  She is also a former member of the National BankPAC Committee.

Kathleen earned a bachelor of arts degree from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, and currently serves on its Board of Trustrees.  She has completed Executive Education Programs from the Darden Business School of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She is a 2001 graduate of Leadership Maryland and was named an Influential Marylander by The Daily Record in 2009.

An artist and avid boater, Kathleen and her husband reside in Annapolis.