Areas of activity have included the Central Valley of California, Idaho, and western Washington. He has 37 years in commercial banking, focusing on agricultural and agribusiness lending. RNA is the 2 nd largest Ag lender in California, and part of Rabobank, a recognized global leader in the financing of producers and processors of food and fiber. Located in Roseville, he oversees the agricultural loan portfolio for Rabobank in California. Senior Regional Credit Officer, Rabobank, N.A. Curt serves as co-chair and manages two agricultural Lender programs: The Agricultural Lending Institute, a joint venture with California State University, Fresno, and, The Agricultural Banking Institute of the Americas, a joint venture with Universidad del Pacifico, in Peru. He is the past chairman of the American Bankers Association Ag and Rural Bankers Committee in Washington DC and is the present chairman of the RMA Agricultural Bankers Committee. Prior to joining Farmer Mac, Curt was a Managing Director for the Ag and Rural Banking Division at San Francisco-based Bank of the West for nearly 10 years after having spent a good part of his early banking career in the Farm Credit system followed by a period of time as a credit administrator with Rabobank. Since 1984 Curt has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Craig School of Business at California State University, Fresno, teaching managerial accounting and finance classes. He earned his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Southern California and his Masters in Agribusiness from Santa Clara University.
Curt was born and raised in the farming community of Selma, California, where his family farmed grapes and nuts. He is responsible for managing the marketing and credit function of a $14 billion nationwide agricultural loan portfolio. Curt CovingtonĬurt Covington is Senior Vice President of Agricultural Finance with the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (‘Farmer Mac’) in Washington, DC.
Should he ever retire from his practice, Hal would likely pursue a second career as rock musician, stage actor or professional soccer player. Hal is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of Fresno Rotary. He has and continues to serve on community Boards and organizations such as The Fresno Business Council, Operation Clean Air Steering Committee and Business Council Air Quality Task Force, Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, The Fresno Metropolitan Museum, The Lively Arts Foundation, The Ag Lenders Society of California, AgOne Foundation, Fresno Coalition for Art, Science and History, Arts to Zoo Campaign, Fresno County Bar Association Board of Directors and Fresno County Young. Finding it difficult to ever say no, Hal has had the privilege of serving on several State Bar committees including acting as Co-Chair of the Legal Services Trust Fund Commission in the years of its formation and following. He has taught Business Organizations and Real Property at California State University, Fresno and San Joaquin College of Law and lectures on a variety of subjects frequently. Hal's practice focuses on real estate, finance, corporate, taxation and general business. When Prudential's management decided that agricultural lawyers should be relocated to company headquarters in Newark, New Jersey, Hal chose instead to return to Fresno to co-found Bolen, Fransen & Russell LLP along with Ken Fransen and former partner Donna Boostrom. In 1986, Hal accepted the position of regional counsel for The Prudential Insurance Company of America's Agricultural Realty Group in Sacramento, serving as the principal attorney in an office whose territory included the eleven western states. Hal graduated and was admitted to the California Bar in 1976 and returned to Fresno to enter private practice with one of its oldest and largest local firms. Hal worked as an accountant during his college years, and upon graduation chose to attend law school at the University of California, Davis, where he served on the Moot Court Board and wrote for and served as co-managing editor of the Law Review. There, Hal was awarded Bachelors of Arts and Science in Economics and Accounting degrees in 1971 and a Masters in Business Administration in 1973. Over 30 years of Commercial Lending experience, with the last 13 years specializing in work out, restructure and bankruptcy situations, including C&I, CRE and Ag loans, both bi-lateral and syndicated relationships.īorn in Winchester, Virginia, Hal Bolen and his family moved out West, where he eventually attended California State University, Fresno.