Cathy Sheehy has been appointed as commissioner and Scott Whittemore as deputy commissioner of the Nevada Division of Mortgage Lending.
The appointments fill the vacancies of after the resignation of former commissioner Jim Westrin and retirement of deputy commissioner Nancy Corbin.
Sheehy has 24 years experience in retail banking where she was a branch manager for 18 years and a product manager for five.
Whittemore is an entrepreneur, where he managed operations and personnel for several ventures.
He earned a political-science degree at the University of San Diego and a law degree from the Boyd School of Law at UNLV where he wrote for the Law Review. He also was recruited by the Wingfield Nevada Group’s Executive Leadership Program where he learned real-estate development, human resources, project management and government affairs.