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The Massachusetts Division of Banks is pleased to welcome Christine Docherty as Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel.  Ms. Docherty joins the Division of Banks with over two decades of experience providing regulatory advice in the financial services sector.  She most recently served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where she had responsibility for day-to-day oversight of the legal function and advised on bank supervision and Reserve Bank lending matters. Prior to her time at the Dallas Fed, Ms. Docherty worked on regulatory and transactional matters for financial institutions based both in the United States and abroad while at Goodwin Procter LLP and at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP.  She also served as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she helped implement economic programs to aid the recovery from the pandemic, and was previously an Associate General Counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and a Vice President at State Street Bank and Trust Company.

She earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University.