While her career plans shifted from astronaut to oceanographer, Juli Anne Callis, president/CEO at National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union never imagined her career trajectory would land in the credit union industry.
After she lost her 10-year-old son Adam to cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscle, Callis needed a change from the travel involved with her work heading the Navy's exchange and commissary operations.
"When a recruiter told me about an open position at a credit union, my first thought was I can't do that picketing stuff," said Callis. "I'd worked in Citibank and for the U.S. Navy you'd think I'd connect the dots. Then I met Jean Yokum, CEO of Langley Federal Credit Union, and that was it for me. Her belief in what she was doing combined with my love for the military and at the time I needed to do something worthwhile and meaningful."
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