MBA Moved Quickly To Hire Stevens.(Mortgage Bankers Association)(Conference news)(Brief article)

Byline: Brad Finkelstein

While change at the top of the Mortgage Bankers Association was expected eventually, the trade group's board didnot think it would happen this quickly.

Chairman Michael Berman said he recently heard that David Stevens might be leaving his position at the Department of Housing and Urban Development so he gave him a call. Still, the organization had always seen its chief executive, John Courson, as "a bridge" and was preparing a succession plan, Berman said in an interview Wednesday at the Regional Conference of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Atlantic City, N.J.

As part of that succession plan, the MBA was slated to form a search …