POWER OF ATTORNEY



                         For Executing Forms 3 4 and 5











Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints

each of the Corporate Secretary and each Assistant Secretary of SunTrust Banks,

Inc. signing singly his true and lawful attorney in fact to:







Prepare and execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf

and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a Form ID including

amendments thereto and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain

codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the

SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

or any rule or regulation of the SEC;







Execute for and on behalf of the undersigned in the undersigned's capacity as an

officer and or director of SunTrust Banks, Inc. Form 3, 4, and 5 and any

amendments there to in accordance with Section 16a of the Securities Exchange

Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;







Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may

be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5

complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such

form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority and;







Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing

which in the opinion of such attorney in fact may be of benefit to, in the best

interest of, or legally required by the undersigned, it being understood that

the documents executed by such attorney in fact on behalf of the undersigned

pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such

terms and conditions as such attorney in fact may approve in his/her discretion.







The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact full power and

authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,

necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers

herein granted as fully to all intents and purposes as such attorney in fact

might or could do if personally present with full power of substitution or

revocation hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney in fact or his

her substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of

this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  This Power of

Attorney shall remain in effect until revoked in writing and delivered to the

Corporate Secretary.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys

in fact in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned are not

assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.







IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

executed as of this _3rd___  day of _May_, 2017.















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Robert Ryan Richards