Cherry Creek Mortgage has promoted Tara Healy to chief compliance officer, the company announced. Healy had been vice president of compliance and has 20 years of experience within the mortgage industry, with a special focus on originations, operations management and compliance.

Before joining Cherry Creek in 2016, Healy worked for 15 years at LenderLive, where she was most recently director of corporate compliance. Before that she was director of operations and operations manager at LenderLive, the company founded by Rick Seehausen, who was named president and chief operating officer of Cherry Creek Holdings in December.

 Healy is the youngest female president of the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association and a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Committee. She was awarded the Certified Mortgage Banker designation in 2018.

 “I know from experience working with Tara here at Cherry Creek and previously at LenderLive that she is a true mortgage professional,” Seehausen said in a release. “Tara is a highly talented individual and certainly deserving of this promotion.”

Founded in 1987, Cherry Creek Mortgage provides Federal Housing Administration, conventional and jumbo purchase and refinance mortgage loans utilizing a proprietary technology platform.

“I truly am honored about the opportunity.” Healy said. “The company has experienced fantastic growth and is continuing to expand. To be part of the Cherry Creek family during this time of growth is exciting.”