Mickey Vandenberg

VP Escrow Operations
Stewart Title Guaranty Company

Mickey Vandenberg is the Western Regional Escrow Ops Manager and Advisory for Doma Title of California, Inc. where she has been responsible for escrow advisory and the implementation and oversight of escrow practices and procedures since January 2020. She began her career in Oregon in 1990 where she started in customer service for a national title insurance company, moving shortly thereafter into its escrow settlement services division where she worked her way up the ranks to the escrow officer position, ultimately leading into escrow supervision and administration. Her desk experience over the years runs deep, closing residential and commercial transactions of all kinds, ranging from mobile homes to complex commercial deals involving multiple properties and states. Focusing on the commercial side, she ran a successful national commercial desk for several years, as well as served as the National Escrow Administrator for a large title company. Mickey’s experience has given her a broad range of technical and operational expertise nationally, as well as in the Southern California market. She brings her national perspective of geographic closing practices to her current work at Doma and her other roles in the escrow settlement industry. Mickey is considered a subject matter expert for western states closing practices and is known as an escrow operational expert for regulatory compliance for TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID), as well as in the escrow settlement eClosing digital transformation space.

Trade Associations. Mickey has been a board member of the Orange County Escrow Association (OCEA) since 2015 and was its 2019 and 2020 President. Mickey also serves on the executive board of the California Escrow Association (CEA), and chairs the National Affairs Committee. Through her association with CEA, she is involved in the Education and Government Affairs Committees for the American Escrow Association (AEA). Mickey is a member of the Settlement Committee of the California Land Title Association (CLTA) that started in 2017. Mickey has also served on the American Land Title Association’s ALTA Business Cases Workgroup which produced its whitepaper for title and settlement service providers, “TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID) Operational Considerations” and has participated in the Digital Process Impact Group and ALTA Digital Closing Taskforce. She has been a participant in MISMO Closing Instructions and Remote Online Notary Development Work Groups.

Educational Outreach. Mickey’s allied industry educational outreach efforts include individual speaking events as well as panel participation for California Land Title Association, California Escrow Association, National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, Louisiana Land Title Association and various other realtor and lender events. In 2015 Mickey became an Instructor for the Escrow Training Institute (ETI) in Southern California, where her TRID training and update classes have been attended by hundreds of students. Digital transformation projects include co-creation of the 2018 and 2019 Escrow Settlement eAwareness Series, “The Escrow Officer of the Future: Staying Relevant in an Ever-Changing World” which includes “The Power of ePlanning: A Workshop for the Escrow Settlement Professional in a Digital World.” Mickey continues to provide education on escrow related topics emphasizing the eClosing landscape and the changing escrow settlement desk.