Michael Blue

Michael Blue resides in Seattle and is the west regional credit risk executive at Bank of America. In this role, he leads a team responsible for credit approvals in Business and Global Commercial Banking; Healthcare, Education, and Not-For-Profit; and Leveraged Finance. 

He began his career in Commercial Banking at Premier Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) in Baton Rouge, La., and has held multiple roles in lending, credit, and risk leadership.

Michael holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance from LSU and is a certified public accountant. For nearly 15 years while in Baton Rouge, he also served as an adjunct instructor at LSU, teaching in the departments of accounting and finance, as well as the Flores MBA Program.

He is a member of the Ogden Honors College Advisory Council and has supported student learning and leadership by establishing scholarship and program support funds for the Honors in Oxford and Louisiana Service and Leadership (LASAL) Programs.