Reggie O'Shields is Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta where he leads the legal and compliance, government and industry relations, strategic planning, marketing and communications, and community investment services areas. He advises the Bank's board of directors and executive management. He is member of the Bank's executive management committee, past chair of the legal officers' committee of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, and former director of the Bank's office of minority and women inclusion and current executive sponsor of its diversity and inclusion council. He currently leads the Bank's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) working group. Reggie is very active in the Atlanta and financial communities. He has served as chair of the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, current chair of the Georgia Heirs Property Law Center, chair of the legal counsel committee of the Georgia Bankers Association, a member of the advisory council of the University of North Carolina Law School Center for Banking and Finance, and a member of the President's Advisory Council of Furman University. He is a 2016 graduate of Leadership Atlanta. Reggie earned his undergraduate degree in 1993 in economics, summa cum laude, from Furman University, where he was awarded the J. Carlyle Ellet Prize in economics for the top graduate in the department. Reggie earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University, and he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif (top ten percent of law school class). Prior to joining FHLBank Atlanta, he practiced with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd in Greenville, South Carolina, and Eversheds Sutherland in Atlanta, Georgia, in the areas of corporate finance, banking and securities.