Ms. Goodwin is an attorney in Helena, Montana, and is the principal of the Goodwin Law Office, P.L.L.C. She maintains a general practice of law including trusts/estate planning, business, nonprofit organizations, and regulatory law. Ms. Goodwin served as Montana s Commissioner of Banking and Financial Institutions from 2001 to 2010, as Chief Legal Counsel of the Montana Banking and Financial Institutions Division and Department of Commerce from 1988 to 2001, and worked in private practice prior to that time. She has been invited to speak at Bank Director Audit/Risk and the Montana Independent Bankers Association conferences. She was appointed to the Commission on Character and Fitness of Attorney Admissions to the State Bar of the Montana Supreme Court, where she has served as Chair since 1988. She also currently serves as a director for Valley Bank, Division of Glacier Bank. She is active in the State Bar of Montana. Ms. Goodwin earned her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Carroll College and worked as a registered nurse before going on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Montana Law School. She continued her legal education at Hastings College of Law, George Mason University of Law in the Banking Law Section, and completed the FDIC Bank Examination School for Attorneys. Ms. Goodwin brings to the Board her legal expertise and knowledge gained in her role as Commissioner where she had regulatory oversight over the financial institutions in Montana.