Sallie Mae Appoints Letitia Reyna Vice President, West Region, Sallie Mae Education Trust

RESTON, Va., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sallie Mae, the nation's leading provider of education funding, today announced that Letitia Reyna has been promoted to Vice President, West Region, Sallie Mae Education Trust.

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Sallie Mae Education Trust is dedicated to working with financial aid professionals to educate families about their financing options prior to college and through repayment. The division provides an array of materials and value-added services tailored to educate borrowers on the entire paying-for- college process.

Ms. Reyna's responsibilities will focus largely on the state of Texas, as well as serving the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. In her new role, she will partner with financial aid offices to help families understand college financing options and to conduct outreach to students and families to make them aware of higher education access resources. In addition, Reyna will continue to have an instrumental role with the Texas Hispanic Advisory Council.

Ms. Reyna has 15 years of experience in the student loan industry. Prior to joining Sallie Mae, she served as a student loan officer at Frost Bank and First American Bank. She also worked at Chase Education First as a senior regional marketing manager, where her responsibilities included the Texas and Louisiana markets. Ms. Reyna resides in San Antonio.

"Letitia's extensive years of professional experience in financial aid and her local presence will be a great asset and benefit to our college and university customers," said Laura Daly, president, Sallie Mae Education Trust.

To learn more about the Sallie Mae Education Trust, visit http://www.salliemaeedtrust.com/.

SLM Corporation , commonly known as Sallie Mae, is the nation's No. 1 paying-for-college company, managing more than $116 billion in student loans for 8 million borrowers. Sallie Mae was originally created in 1972 as a government-sponsored entity (GSE) and terminated its corporate ties to the federal government in 2004. The company remains the country's largest originator of federally insured student loans. Through its specialized subsidiaries and divisions, Sallie Mae also provides debt management services as well as business and technical products to a range of business clients, including colleges, universities and loan guarantors. More information is available at http://www.salliemae.com/. SLM Corporation and its subsidiaries are not sponsored by or agencies of the United States of America.