Teresa J. Rasmussen - Director, National Fraternal Congress of America

Teresa (Terry) J. Rasmussen oversees Thrivent Financial for Lutherans’ law, compliance, business risk management and government relations functions. In addition, she manages all Thrivent Financial board meetings. Prior to joining Thrivent Financial in 2005, Rasmussen served as vice president and general counsel of IDS Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of American Express Financial Corp. In addition, she held the titles of vice president and managing counsel of asset management, insurance and annuities and the corporate secretary unit. Prior to that, she served in a variety of legal positions within American Express.

Formerly, Rasmussen was general counsel and executive vice president of Northeast Securities Corp, a family-owned bank holding company, and as an associate with Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donolly law firm, both based in Minneapolis. Rasmussen began her legal career in 1984 as part of the United States Attorney General’s honors program where she was a trial attorney in the tax division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Rasmussen was appointed to a one-year term as a director of the National Fraternal Congress of America (NFCA) in September 2005.

A native of Fergus Falls, Minn., Rasmussen received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Moorhead State University (now Minnesota State University Moorhead). After passing her CPA exam in 1981, she earned her juris doctorate degree from the University of North Dakota Law School in Grand Forks in 1984.

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