James G. Orie

James G. Orie has served as F.N.B. Corporation’s Chief Legal Officer since 2004 and became the Company’s Corporate Secretary in 2015. Orie manages FNB’s in-house Legal Department and has primary oversight of the Company’s and its affiliates’ matters involving board governance and fiduciary responsibilities. He also provides counsel to the senior management team and is engaged in critical functions including legal, regulatory, business and operational compliance and risk management processes, transaction negotiations, litigation and claims, SEC reporting and disclosure matters, updating the Company’s Code of Conduct and navigating attendant issues. Orie brings more than 37 years of legal and bank regulatory experience to the role.

Before joining FNB’s Legal Department in 1996, Orie held roles as counsel with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, as well as Chief Counsel for the Office of Thrift Supervision’s Pittsburgh office and lead counsel for a Pittsburgh-based law firm’s corporate, business and banking practice.

Orie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Franklin & Marshall College and earned his Juris Doctorate at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh. He is active in the community having served on various non-profit boards such as Ozanam Inc., while also volunteering and providing pro bono assistance for charitable and education organizations.