The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Kortney Nordrum, Regulatory Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Deluxe. In this Part 2, she talks about her move to DC with her now hubby, where Nordrum worked for Freddie Mac Technology Consultant on the team that reverse engineered the software at Freddie Mac to be SOX compliant. In this role, Nordrum learned the basics of SOX requirements. She then went to law school and studied abroad in Israel at Bar Ilan University. In law school she became interested in Animal Law and decided she wanted to be an animal lawyer. She left MN to head to NYC and Big Law, quickly realizing it did not fit with who she is, so she moved back to MN.