Biggest Climbers by Volume — North Carolina (2023)

Biggest climbers in North Carolina in 2023, ranked by total volume. Powered by ChatMMI — the only fully conversational AI experience for mortgage and real estate data.

As of July 13, 2026, the top 3 include Christina Redman (Navy Federal Credit Union, NMLS #2364403), Dawn Carter Mullen (Ridgeland Mortgage, LLC, NMLS #1739949), and Stephanie Bell (State Employees' Credit Union, NMLS #1305180).

Updated · Recorded mortgage transactions typically appear in this dataset approximately 22 days after the recording date.

Biggest Climbers by Volume — North Carolina (2023) — top 50
Rank Loan officer LO NMLS Current Lender / Broker Lender NMLS Location Rank Change 2023 Volume 2023 Loans
#1 Christina Redman 2364403 Navy Federal Credit Union 399807 ▲ 8921 (#9283 → #362) $22.9M 69
#2 Dawn Carter Mullen 1739949 Ridgeland Mortgage, LLC 2245922 Chandler, AZ ▲ 8551 (#8945 → #394) $22.0M 71
#3 Stephanie Bell 1305180 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Raleigh, NC ▲ 8546 (#9487 → #941) $12.8M 61
#4 Robert Kennedy 1564396 Neighborhood Mortgage Solutions, LLC 191693 Baldwin, MI ▲ 8453 (#9814 → #1361) $9.3M 40
#5 David Myers 1491741 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 ▲ 7962 (#10000 → #2038) $6.2M 35
#6 Macy Swartz 2365581 NorthSide Mortgage Group LLC 68411 Mount Airy, NC ▲ 7803 (#9636 → #1833) $6.9M 34
#7 Makayla Harrelson 1813098 Zillow Home Loans, LLC 10287 Irvine, CA ▲ 7791 (#9842 → #2051) $6.2M 31
#8 David Nogradi 2307216 Guild Mortgage Company LLC 3274 ▲ 7716 (#9065 → #1349) $9.4M 23
#9 Timothy Young 2369429 American Heritage Lending, LLC 93735 Irvine, CA ▲ 7658 (#9653 → #1995) $6.3M 11
#10 Joshua Smith 2301088 loanDepot.com, LLC 174457 Plano, TX ▲ 7488 (#9925 → #2437) $5.1M 20
#11 Jonathan Schunker 2184002 JAMS-01, Inc 192608 Raleigh, NC ▲ 7457 (#9690 → #2233) $5.6M 17
#12 Casey Godwin 1540246 Zillow Home Loans, LLC 10287 Overland Park, KS ▲ 7359 (#9619 → #2260) $5.5M 16
#13 Brendan Rose 1991546 Nexus Nova LLC 2082961 Charlotte, NC ▲ 7346 (#9383 → #2037) $6.2M 19
#14 Pagadala Shalini 1961554 C 4 D Mortgage Company LLC 151261 Troy, MI ▲ 7290 (#8378 → #1088) $11.3M 24
#15 Jordan Branch 2247937 Guaranteed Rate, Inc. 2611 Asheville, NC ▲ 7249 (#9550 → #2301) $5.4M 26
#16 Jasmine Miller 1718693 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 ▲ 7199 (#8449 → #1250) $10.0M 55
#17 Megan Carpenter 1554692 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Raleigh, NC ▲ 7174 (#9192 → #2018) $6.3M 36
#18 Nichole Jacobs 1289453 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Raleigh, NC ▲ 7156 (#8137 → #981) $12.4M 60
#19 Sharon McFarland 177465 The First Bank and Trust Company 486426 Kingsport, TN ▲ 7066 (#8561 → #1495) $8.5M 18
#20 Brittany Joyce Thornton 1771206 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Greensboro, NC ▲ 7017 (#8799 → #1782) $7.1M 50
#21 Corey Harding 1479478 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association 399801 Roxboro, NC ▲ 6955 (#9859 → #2904) $4.1M 27
#22 Olyn Borchardt 320177 Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc. 75243 Corona, CA ▲ 6907 (#9388 → #2481) $5.0M 19
#23 Anthony Russo 1538011 loanDepot.com, LLC 174457 Southfield, MI ▲ 6904 (#9144 → #2240) $5.6M 22
#24 Christopher Drescher 896462 Onity Mortgage Corporation 2726 Plano, TX ▲ 6873 (#9450 → #2577) $4.8M 16
#25 Daniel Talley 925819 Atlantic Union Bank 551889 Reston, VA ▲ 6848 (#8439 → #1591) $8.0M 11
#26 Michael Wissing 1439868 GoodLeap, LLC 30336 Phoenix, AZ ▲ 6814 (#9823 → #3009) $3.9M 20
#27 Mary Teson 1974450 Mortgage Research Center, LLC 1907 Earth City, MO ▲ 6794 (#9643 → #2849) $4.2M 13
#28 Christian Sanson 1827877 Loan Pronto, Inc. 1661781 Charlotte, NC ▲ 6782 (#8339 → #1557) $8.2M 26
#29 Alyssa Hicklin 2231687 Reliance First Capital, LLC 58775 Charlotte, NC ▲ 6747 (#9064 → #2317) $5.3M 23
#30 Rhonda Carlisle 1233767 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Tarboro, NC ▲ 6727 (#9016 → #2289) $5.4M 40
#31 John Davis 864921 Oak City Lending LLC 1969372 Raleigh, NC ▲ 6725 (#8914 → #2189) $5.7M 16
#32 Steven Barnes 866759 American Bank of the Carolinas 1864455 Indian Trail, NC ▲ 6687 (#9508 → #2821) $4.2M 10
#33 Jenae Palmer 1174271 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Ahoskie, NC ▲ 6594 (#9967 → #3373) $3.4M 32
#34 Sierra Nance 1748785 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Whitsett, NC ▲ 6579 (#8464 → #1885) $6.7M 41
#35 KATIE EVANS 101963 Carolina Home Mortgage, Inc. 39862 Fayetteville, NC ▲ 6497 (#9226 → #2729) $4.4M 17
#36 Jennifer Johnston 1948839 Mid-Continent Funding, Inc. 1313859 Columbia, MO ▲ 6485 (#9602 → #3117) $3.8M 12
#37 Shahbul Molla 1922429 Longbridge Financial, LLC 957935 ▲ 6480 (#9773 → #3293) $3.5M 2
#38 Kwesi Enu 1309486 Rocket Mortgage, LLC 3030 Detroit, MI ▲ 6470 (#9341 → #2871) $4.1M 14
#39 Israel Vance 1468594 First Horizon Bank 472329 Johnson City, TN ▲ 6452 (#9134 → #2682) $4.5M 5
#40 Brittney White 1494640 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 ▲ 6421 (#8781 → #2360) $5.2M 39
#41 Dima Zimmerman 1032611 Velocio Mortgage L.L.C. 1529234 Farmers Branch, TX ▲ 6418 (#7535 → #1117) $11.1M 27
#42 Andre Raveling 1921056 PennyMac Loan Services, LLC 35953 ▲ 6403 (#9775 → #3372) $3.4M 10
#43 Robert Howell 589374 First National Bank of Pennsylvania 766529 ▲ 6358 (#8849 → #2491) $5.0M 7
#44 Elijah Tanner 2218948 Corporate Investors Mortgage Group, Inc. 39460 Chapel Hill, NC ▲ 6293 (#6469 → #176) $32.0M 106
#45 Katherine Hardy 1268183 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Raleigh, NC ▲ 6292 (#6945 → #653) $16.5M 61
#46 Shawn Ryan 1481220 West Capital Lending, Inc. 1566096 Irvine, CA ▲ 6290 (#9705 → #3415) $3.4M 12
#47 Samantha Thompson 1675371 State Employees' Credit Union 430055 Raleigh, NC ▲ 6272 (#7899 → #1627) $7.9M 32
#48 Xavier Flores 2131201 Pentagon Federal Credit Union 401822 Tysons, VA ▲ 6265 (#9540 → #3275) $3.5M 14
#49 Charles Coleman 2316914 GL Lending LLC 2724191 Charlotte, NC ▲ 6232 (#7702 → #1470) $8.7M 30
#50 Aaron Meilich 769327 Waterstone Mortgage Corporation 186434 Sacramento, CA ▲ 6221 (#9822 → #3601) $3.2M 5

Frequently asked

Who is the top mortgage loan officer climber in North Carolina in 2023?
Christina Redman (Navy Federal Credit Union, NMLS #2364403) ranks #1 in North Carolina in 2023 with $22.9M in funded mortgage volume based on MMI's public-record mortgage dataset.
Who are the top mortgage loan officers in North Carolina in 2023?
1. Christina Redman (Navy Federal Credit Union); 2. Dawn Carter Mullen (Ridgeland Mortgage, LLC); 3. Stephanie Bell (State Employees' Credit Union). The full ranking continues on this page, sourced from MMI's public-record mortgage dataset.

About this data

These rankings are powered by MMI's nationwide residential mortgage public record dataset. MMI collects mortgage transaction data from recording jurisdictions across the United States, with an average data latency of approximately 22 days from the recording date.

Transactions are matched to NMLS identifiers for loan officers, lenders, and brokers where applicable. MMI then deduplicates, normalizes, and validates this data to create an authoritative mortgage production dataset that powers MMI's analytics, recruiting, marketing, and intelligence products.

Rankings reflect recorded mortgage transactions available to MMI at the time of the last data refresh. Recent activity may continue to update as additional transactions are recorded and processed.

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TopMortgageOriginators.com. Biggest Climbers by Volume — North Carolina (2023). Powered by MMI public record mortgage production data, accessed July 13, 2026. https://topmortgageoriginators.com/lo-leaderboard/north-carolina/top-climbers-by-volume/2023

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