Charles L. Gummer is chairman of the Comerica Bank-Texas Division. He also serves as a member of the Management Policy Committee and Senior Leadership Team.

Mr. Gummer joined Comerica Bank in Michigan in 1970. He held management positions in the commercial loan, middle market banking and metropolitan corporate banking departments. When Comerica Incorporated acquired Grand Bancshares of Dallas in 1988, Mr. Gummer joined Grand Bancshares' executive management team and its board of directors. He was appointed president and chief executive officer of Comerica Bank-Texas in 1989. He was named to his current position effective July 31, 2010.

Mr. Gummer received a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio State University in 1969 and an MBA from Wayne State University in 1973. He graduated from the University of Michigan's Graduate School of Banking and Financial Services in 1983.

Mr. Gummer currently serves as a member of the Dallas Summer Musicals executive committee, Board Member of Downtown Dallas, Executive Board of the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business, the Better Business Bureau of Dallas Board, the Advisory Board of the Vogel Alcove Arts Performance Committee (he and his wife, Cindy, are co-chairs of the 2011 Vogel Alcove Arts Performance Event), Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Advisory Committee, and advisory committee of Bishop Lynch High School, and Board Member of The Catholic Foundation.

The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Dallas Summer Musicals, the Better Business Bureau of Dallas, United Negro College Fund, Dallas Affordable Housing Partnership, and Texas Bankers Association Regional Bankers Council have all benefited from his leadership as Chairman. He also has served as a member of the board of directors of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking and the Executive Council of the Thanksgiving Foundation, as a member of the Dallas Citizens Council, and as a member of the North Texas Business Committee for the Arts.