Autumn Leatham

Autumn Leatham is a Senior Vice President and Commercial Banking Team Lead at City First Bank. Leatham who is based in Washington DC, assist in managing the commercial banking team in addition to focusing on the strategic growth and development of the commercial banking client portfolio.

Leatham has spent the majority of her career in the financial services and nonprofit sectors, focusing on commercial real estate and community development lending. Prior to joining City First Bank, she was a senior lead Relationship Manager in Wells Fargo’s Commercial Real Estate Community Lending and Investment Group covering the Greater Washington Area. While at Wells Fargo, Leatham lead the debt product financing for construction and permanent financing of both ground-up development and the acquisition & rehabilitation of existing affordable housing properties. In addition to leading the deal structuring teams on transactions and monitoring LIHTC projects from construction through stabilization.

Before that Leatham was at Bank of America in their Commercial Real Estate Community Development Banking Group. While there she was responsible for coordinating the delivery of Community Development Banking products and services to developers and focused on Low-income and Historic Tax Credit Investment as well as Charter School facilities financing. Leatham began her career at PNC Bank as an Investment Advisor in their Wealth Management group, and then spent time working for a large Charter School network in the Washington DC area.

Throughout her career, Leatham has developed a high-level expertise for procuring and cultivating relationships. Beyond her professional work, Leatham has volunteered with several non-profit organizations that align closely with her passions. Autumn is a proud graduate of Hampton University, and lives in Bethesda MD with her husband and daughter.