CHARITY VOLMAN-WINN | President, TowneBank Norfolk

Charity Volman-Winn joined Suffolk-based TowneBank in 2019 as president of corporate banking, with nearly three decades of financial services experience. The following year, Volman-Winn became president of TowneBank Norfolk.

In the role, Volman-Winn oversees the region’s staffing, financial results and overall member satisfaction. An aspect of her job that she especially enjoys is coaching and developing employees.

“With my team, those who require structured, real-time coaching get it,” she says. “Those who prefer a more hands-off, collaborative style get that as well. I consider myself very adept at identifying what works for each individual.”

Hundreds of TowneBank employees have been mentored by Volman-Winn. This year, she helped build a more robust curriculum of assignments for summer commercial banking interns.

“Even while overseeing some of the bank’s biggest portfolios, Charity is never too busy to offer guidance and provide mentorship,” her nominator says.

Volman-Winn started her banking career at Crestar Bank in 1990. After its 1998 merger with SunTrust Banks, Volman-Winn became SunTrust’s South Hampton Roads president, the first woman in the role.

In 2024, Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed Volman-Winn to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission. She is also chair of the board of the d’Art Center, a community art center in Norfolk, and sits on the board of the Chrysler Museum of Art. She is a trustee emeritus for the Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation.

Volman-Winn has a degree in English from what was then known as Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

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