ATLANTA, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
(FHLBank Atlanta) today announced that the Federal Housing Finance Board
(Finance Board) has appointed three new members to FHLBank Atlanta's board
of directors. They are F. Gary Garczynski, William C. Handorf, and Robert
L. Strickland Jr.
F. Gary Garczynski is chairman of the National Housing Endowment and
president of National Capital Land and Development, Inc., a construction
and real estate development company in Woodbridge, Va. He previously served
as the 2002 Past President of the National Association of Home Builders
(NAHB). A housing developer with more than 30 years' experience, Garczynski
serves as a Senior Life Director of NAHB, a Life Director of the Home
Builder Association of Virginia, and a Senior Life Director of the Northern
Virginia Building Industry Association. He also is a member of the Prince
William County, Va., Affordable Housing Task Force and a three-term
appointee to the Virginia Housing Commission.
William C. Handorf, Ph.D., is a professor of finance and real estate at
George Washington University's School of Business in Washington, D.C., with
more than 30 years' experience as a professor. In addition to writing more
than 400 professional publications, Handorf has worked as a commercial bank
lender, bank regulator, consultant, and U.S. Army officer. He recently
completed two terms as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's
Baltimore Branch, including two years as chair. Handorf also served as a
private citizen director of the Federal Home Loan Bank System's Office of
Finance.
Robert L. Strickland Jr. is the executive director of the Alabama
Housing Finance Authority (AHFA), an independent, public corporation. In
that role, Strickland oversees statewide affordable multifamily housing
production efforts and administers single-family programs geared toward
first-time and lower-income buyers. Strickland has served as president of
the National Council of State Housing Agencies, coordinating and leveraging
federal advocacy efforts for affordable housing. He served on FHLBank
Atlanta's board of directors from 2002 to 2004 and was previously a member
of FHLBank Atlanta's Affordable Housing Advisory Council and the National
Association of Homebuilders' Mortgage Roundtable.
The Finance Board has appointed Garczynski to serve the remainder of a
three-year term that began on Jan. 1, 2006. Handorf and Strickland each
will serve the remainder of a three-year term that began on Jan. 1, 2007.
About FHLBank Atlanta
FHLBank Atlanta is a financial services organization that provides low-
cost funding, community development grants, and other banking services to
more than 1,200 financial institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of
Columbia. FHLBank Atlanta is one of 12 district banks in the Federal Home
Loan Bank System, which since 1990 has contributed more than $2 billion to
affordable housing development in the United States.
SOURCE Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
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