Katie Morrell joined St. Louis Park-based Bridgewater in 2020 and has proven key in supporting its expansion from $2.9 billion to $5.4 billion in assets as of September 2025, when she was promoted to chief credit officer. Through credit oversight and the strengthening of scalable risk-management processes, the bank reports she has helped ensure it could grow. Also of note, she led the credit review team’s due-diligence efforts for Bridgewater’s acquisition of First Minnetonka City Bank in 2024. She also developed a loan portfolio stress-testing system to evaluate macroeconomic credit risk under severe market scenarios and created a loan-repricing risk assessment, enhancing the bank’s ability to anticipate risk and weather economic change.