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A headshot of Jennifer Docherty

Jennifer Docherty

Board Director, Sunrise Banks

About Jennifer

Jennifer Docherty is a member of the Board of Directors at Sunrise Banks. She joined the board in June 2022 and currently chairs the Audit and Finance committee.

Jennifer has more than 25 years of experience as a senior banking and legal advisor, working closely with management teams and boards of directors to provide strategic and industry advice. She is also skilled at partnering with bankers, clients and regulators to identify and resolve issues, and develop and execute major strategic initiatives.

Jennifer currently serves as General Counsel of Performance Trust, a Chicago-based full-service investment bank focused on community depository institutions.

Previous Experience

Jennifer’s previous experience includes serving as a managing director and associate general counsel in the financial services group at Piper Sandler & Co. (previously Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P.). Prior to investment banking, she was a senior associate at a New York City law firm working on general corporate, regulatory and securities matters for financial institutions, including mergers and acquisitions, mutual-to-stock conversions, reorganizations into holding company form, and public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.

Banking and Gender Diversity

Jennifer is the co-founder, founding director and chair of Bank on Women, Inc./WIN (Winning Strategies for Boards and C-suites), a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the community bank industry on the importance of adding qualified women to the Board and C-suites of community banks. Bank on Women works within the industry to develop and promote women leaders, with the goal of increasing the numbers of qualified women serving on community bank boards and in executive management.

Jennifer is a sought-after national speaker and regular contributor to articles on banking and gender diversity.

Education and Personal Interests

Jennifer holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. She is currently a Level 4 certified USA Hockey coach and former treasurer of her daughter’s Girl Scouts of America troop.