WASHINGTON, D.C.  — Hudson Cook LLP partners Lucy Morris and Ryan Stinneford were elected Fellows of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. Membership in the ACCFSL is limited to those attorneys who have achieved preeminence and made repeated and substantial contributions to the promotion of learning and scholarship in the field of consumer financial services law through teaching, lecturing and published writings.

Morris is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office and chair of Hudson Cook’s government investigations, examinations and enforcement practice group. She counsels financial institutions and others in complying with federal consumer financial laws and prohibitions against unfair, deceptive or abusive trade practices. Morris is an experienced advocate and litigator, representing clients in government investigations, examinations and enforcement actions before federal and state agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Department of Justice and state Attorney General offices.

Before joining Hudson Cook, Morris served as a founding member of the CFPB Implementation Team that organized the bureau after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. She also served as a CFPB Deputy Enforcement Director for four years. She also worked at the FTC for more than 20 years in a variety of leadership positions.

Stinneford is a partner in the firm’s Portland, Maine, office and assists clients with a wide variety of federal, Maine and Massachusetts regulatory compliance matters. His retail financial compliance experience includes prepaid access; consumer and commercial deposit products; electronic banking and payment services; consumer finance products (residential mortgages, home equity loans/lines, personal loans/lines, credit cards, student loans, auto loans and leases, and retail installment sales contracts); marketing and advertising issues; privacy and data security issues; and vendor contracting/third-party risk management issues. His representative clients include community, regional and national banks, as well as non-bank lenders and service providers.

For the eighth consecutive year, Stinneford is listed in the 2018 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of Banking and Finance Law and of Financial Services Regulation Law. He was named the Best Lawyers Banking and Finance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Portland, Maine, for 2018 as well as in 2015.

Stinneford is a member of the Consumer Financial Services Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, and served as chair of the committee’s Deposit Products and Payment Systems subcommittee from 2008 to 2011, and vice chair from 2005 to 2008. He is also a member and former chair of the Consumer and Financial Institutions Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association.

Morris and Stinneford Join 12 other Hudson Cook attorneys who have previously been named fellows:

• Michael A. Benoit (Washington, DC)

• Thomas J. Buiteweg (Ann Arbor, MI)

• Robert A. Cook (Hanover, MD) (founding member and current Past President)

• Patricia E. M. Covington (Richmond, VA)

• Anne P. Fortney (Washington, DC) (founding member; Lifetime Achievement Award winner)

• Richard P. Hackett (Portland, ME) (former Regent; chair, 2017 Annual Writing Competition)

• Thomas B. Hudson (Hanover, MD) (Past President; ex officio Regent; Lifetime Achievement Award winner)

• Joseph (“Jed”) E. Mayk (West Chester, PA)

• Nicole Frush Munro (Hanover, MD)

• L. Jean Noonan (Washington, DC) (founding member; Secretary; former Regent; former chair, Lifetime Achievement Award Committee and Writing Competition Committee)

• Joel C. Winston (Washington, DC) (Board of Regents)

• Elizabeth C. Yen (New Haven, CT) (chair, 2018 Annual Writing Competition)