Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

TCF Financial Corporation ("TCF" or the "Company") Chief Risk Officer Neil W. Brown has informed TCF that he resigned from the Company effective November 19, 2012.

The Risk Committee of TCF's Board of Directors has asked David M. Stautz, Senior Vice President, Controller, and Managing Director of Corporate Development and the Company's Principal Accounting Officer, to serve as the Chief Risk Officer for the Company on an interim basis effective November 23, 2012. Mr. Stautz has accepted this assignment and will no longer serve as the Company's Principal Accounting Officer, Controller and Managing Director of Corporate Development.

Susan D. Bode, age 49, currently Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of TCF National Bank, the Company's wholly-owned bank subsidiary, has assumed the additional role of Principal Accounting Officer for the Company, effective November 23, 2012. Prior to joining TCF National Bank in April 2010, Ms. Bode served as a Managing Director with the finance group of Residential Capital, LLC, a division of GMAC LLC engaged principally in mortgage financing activities, since 2007.

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