About Us
The Steel Valley Federal Credit Union, a not for profit financial cooperative, is organized and managed to provide a safe, economical, and convenient financial institution for our membership. To promote thrift and through competitive dividends for savings, and provide economical loans with competitive interest rates, and service through modern technologies.
History
1966. Chartered by the Bureau of Credit Unions as the United Steelworkers (Cleveland) Federal Credit Union to serve the members of United Steelworkers Local 185 working for J&L Steel.
1985. Amended the Charter to change the name of the sponsor from J&L Steel to LTV Steel and to allow the steelworkers of the merged Republic Steel Company to become members of the credit union.
1988. Amended the Charter to allow for the first select employee group, North Coast Container.
1990. Amended the Charter to allow for the first credit union merger, Sears Federal Credit Union. Amended the Charter to allow the merger of the U.I.U. Local 48 Credit Union. Amended the Charter to allow the merger of the Mines and Mills Federal Credit Union.
1991. Amended the Charter to allow the merger of Christian Tabernacle Evangelistic Church Credit Union. Amended the Charter to allow the merger of Cleveland Steel and Tubes Credit Union.
1992. Amended the Charter to change the name from United Steelworkers (Cleveland) Federal Credit Union to Steel Valley Federal Credit Union. Amended the Charter for the merger of Midland Steel Federal Credit Union.
1993. Amended the Charter for the Purchase and Assumption of the East Cleveland Schools Credit Union.
1994. Amended the Charter for the merger of Saint Michael’s Roman Catholic Parish Federal Credit Union.
1995. Amended the Charter for the Purchase and Assumption of the Cleveland Heights Employees Credit Union.
2001. Amended the Charter for the Purchase and Assumption of the Metro Health Credit Union. Amended the Charter for the merger of Thomas Steel Credit Union.
2004. Amended the Charter to serve the Underserved for the West Side of Cleveland.
2007. Amended the Charter to serve the underserved for Greater Warren.
2008. Amended the Charter to merger the Alliance of Poles Federal Credit Union.
2009. Amended the Charter to serve the Underserved for Greater Cleveland.
2011. Amended the Charter for the merger of the Brook Park Municipal Employee’s Federal Credit Union.
2012. Opened a new branch office in the city of Eastlake. Amended the charter for the purchase and assumption of the G. I. C. Federal Credit Union.
Credit Union Sponsors
| 1st Choice A.J. Rose Acacia Place Adalet Adcom/Piston Delivery AFSCME 100 AFSCME 1746 Alcoa Aluminum All-Ohio Threaded Rod Co. Aluminum Coating Mfg. Angela Mia Apollo Welding and Fabricating Arcelor Mittal Steel Aztec Imports Bic Mfg Brookside Auto Parts Business Stationery Cannon Advertising Specialties Carius Tool Carnegie Textile Co. CCBDD Charlie’s Towing City of Brook Park City of Cleveland Heights City of East Cleveland City of Eastlake City of Lakewood City of Warren City View Nursing Cleveland Christian Home Cleveland Free Clinic |
Cleveland Screw Products Complete Personal Logistics Consolidated Metal Cornucopia Cosmo Plastics CT Contracting Custom Paper Tubes Cuyahoga County Board of Health Deans Greenhouse Decker Steel East Cleveland City Schools East/West Side Metals Eliza Bryant Eliza Jennings Enterprise Welding and Fabrication Finish Line Binderies Gatto Electric Supply Co. Good Samaritan Skilled Nursing Grace Hospital Graco/Century Products Graphic Arts DBA Ohio Graphic Arts System Inc. Grant Railway H. Goodman Hillside PLaza Home Hyprolap Finishing Inland Waters of Ohio John Lance Ford Kotecki Monuments Lakewood Animal Hospital Local 727 Mark Thomas Ford |
Mika Metals Fabricating Metrohealth Hospital Multi-Care Nursing Homes Norman Noble Orange Blossom Press Pearlview Nursing Peerless Metals Personalized Data Corp. Ralph C. Tyler Inc. Ritrama Duramark RSL Inc. Sealey Mattress Sears Shane Transportation Sherwin Williams Sims Buick Warren SP Data SpringCo Metal Coatings Stamco Industries Tata Steel (Thomas Steel) Tendon Manufacturing The Patrician Universal Steel Washington Square White Dove William Sopko & Sons Inc. Yellow Cab Zappitelli’s |
Board of Directors
- Carolyn B. Jones, Chairman
- Otis Tuck, Secretary
- John Borkowski, Treasurer
- Raymond Nesky
- JoAnn Melargno
- Pamela Brown
- Daryl DuBroy
Supervisory/Audit Committee
- Mitch Bienia
- Maricela Ruiz
- John Bernath
Executive Staff
- David K. Lawhun, CEO
- Regina L. Oberg, Executive Assistant
- Irwin F. Caraballo, Director of Operations
- Michael J. Nowakowski, Director of Business Development
- Robert C. Johnson, Manager of Information Systems
- Jeanne T. Flors, Loan Manager
- John P. Szeszak, Member Services Manager
