Teachers Credit Union recently promoted Brandon Hearne to manager of its Gary service center at 3730 Grant St.

Hearne joined TCU in 2016. He started as a relationship representative and manager trainee.

Hearne is an Indiana University Northwest graduate. He as represetned TCU in the community as part of Indiana Kids, a program providing free tutoring and mentoring to grade-school students, as a member of the board of directors for the Gary Shakespeare Company, and as a sign-language interpreter with TradeWind Services, a Northwest Indiana nonprofit agency providing a link between deaf and hearing people.

Teachers Credit Union operates 54 branches throughout Indiana and southwest Michigan. It has more than $3 billion in assets and more than 300,000 members.