The Chattanooga Mortgage Bankers Association elected Paul Smith to serve as a board member and secretary.
Mr. Smith has worked as a mortgage loan originator with Northwest Georgia Bank since July 2007, beginning at the Battlefield Financial Centre in Catoosa County before transferring to the community bank’s Ooltewah branch in March 2009.
He has worked for Countrywide Home Loans in Chattanooga as a home loan consultant and for Mercedes-Benz Long of Chattanooga as a sales consultant and Internet sales coordinator.
Prior to moving to Chattanooga in 2004, Mr. Smith served as business administrator for two parishes in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Mn. He also worked seven years as a retirement plan specialist/financial planner with the Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co., a division of American General, later American International Group.
A western New York native, Mr. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
He is a member of the Chattanooga Association of Realtors and the Home Builders Association of Southern Tennessee. He is also an active member of St. Stephen Catholic Church in East Brainerd, where he serves on the finance board.
He and his wife Ellen live in East Brainerd. They have three children and five grandchildren.