Lily currently serves as President and CEO of Tarrant County’s Credit Union, a community-based credit union in Fort Worth, Texas, and has spent her entire career serving in the credit union industry.

She graduated from the University of Madrid, Spain in 1985 with a B.A. Degree in Business/Finance and obtained her Credit Union Development Educator designation in 2008. A 1999 graduate of Southwest CUNA Management School (SCMS), Lily has been part of the SCMS faculty for over 20 years.
Lily served as a Board Trustee with the Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation for 17 years and served as a CUDE Advisory Trustee. She also served on Filene’s Research Council, CUNA Mutual Group’s Select CU Council, CUNA’s World Affairs Committee, and as a Director for the Cornerstone League. She currently serves on Cornerstone League’s International Relationship Committee, CUNA’s Small Credit Union Committee and is a Director on the National Credit Union Foundation, Filene Research Institute, and Credit Union Women’s Leadership Alliance Boards.

She is a founding member and Chair of the Credit Union Women’s Leadership Alliance (CUWLA).

Lily was named the 2017 Credit Union Professional of the Year by the Cornerstone League.

In August 2022, she was one of twenty women inducted into the newest exhibit at the America’s Credit Union Museum, “Credit Union Women Making History: Herstory.”