Dan Mica, president and CEO of the Credit Union National Association, announced last week that he, along with CUNA Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff Richard McBride, will resign effective January 2011.

Mica, who represented Florida's 11th district in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1989, said he was resigning in accordance with advice he once received not to stay in a position for more than 10 years. After leaving Congress, Mica was executive vice president for federal affairs at the American Council of Life Insurance until 1996, when he joined CUNA.

"Now, completely of my own choosing and preference, I am making the change. I fully intend to move on to something else after I depart CUNA. There is much room in my life for additional accomplishments, and I am looking at all opportunities," Mica said in a statement.

While at CUNA, the trade organization for credit unions, Mica lobbied members of Congress to pass various pieces of legislation impacting the industry, including the Credit Union Membership Access Act and the Bankruptcy Abuse Reform Act.

"During his tenure at CUNA -- longer than any other CEO -- Dan has brought CUNA and the credit union movement to the highest levels of respect in Washington and nationwide," Kris Mecham, chairman of CUNA's board of directors, said in a statement.