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
