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Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve

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Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Seal of the Board of Governors
Incumbent
Philip Jefferson

since September 13, 2023
United States Federal Reserve System
Member ofBoard of Governors
Open Market Committee
Reports toUnited States Congress
SeatEccles Building
Washington, D.C.
AppointerPresident
with Senate advice and consent
Term lengthFour years, renewable (as Vice Chair)
14 years, non-renewable (as Governor)
Constituting instrumentFederal Reserve Act
FormationAugust 10, 1914; 109 years ago (1914-08-10)
First holderFrederic Adrian Delano
SalaryExecutive Schedule, Level II[1]
Websitewww.federalreserve.gov

The vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the second-highest officer of the Federal Reserve, after the chair of the Federal Reserve.

The vice chair and the vice chair for supervision each serve a four-year term after being nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate.[2]

The position of vice chair is currently held by Philip Jefferson who was sworn in on September 13, 2023.[3]

List of vice chairs[change | change source]

# Portrait Name
(Birth–death)
Term of office[a] Tenure length Appointed by[b]
Start of term End of term
1 Frederic Delano
(1863–1953)
August 10, 1914 August 9, 1916 1 year, 365 days Woodrow Wilson
2 Paul Warburg
(1868–1932)
August 10, 1916 August 9, 1918 1 year, 364 days
3 Albert Strauss
(1864–1929)
October 26, 1918 March 15, 1920 1 year, 141 days
4 Edmund Platt
(1865–1939)
July 23, 1920 September 14, 1930 10 years, 53 days
5 John Thomas
(1869–unknown)
August 21, 1934 February 10, 1936 1 year, 173 days Franklin D. Roosevelt
6 Ronald Ransom
(1882–1947)
August 6, 1936 December 2, 1947 11 years, 118 days
7 Canby Balderston
(1897–1979)
March 11, 1955 February 28, 1966 10 years, 354 days Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
8 James Robertson
(1907–1994)
March 1, 1966 April 30, 1973 7 years, 60 days Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
9 George Mitchell
(1904–1997)
May 1, 1973 February 13, 1976 2 years, 288 days Richard Nixon
10 Stephen Gardner
(1921–1978)
February 13, 1976 November 19, 1978 2 years, 279 days Gerald Ford
11 Frederick Schultz
(1929–2009)
July 27, 1979 February 11, 1982 2 years, 199 days Jimmy Carter
12 Preston Martin
(1923–2007)
March 31, 1982 April 30, 1986 4 years, 30 days Ronald Reagan
13 Manley Johnson
(born 1949)
August 4, 1986 August 3, 1990 3 years, 364 days
14 David Mullins
(1946–2018)
July 24, 1991 February 14, 1994 2 years, 205 days George H. W. Bush
15 Alan Blinder
(born 1945)
June 27, 1994 January 31, 1996 1 year, 218 days Bill Clinton
16 Alice Rivlin
(1931–2019)
June 25, 1996 July 16, 1999 3 years, 21 days
17 Roger Ferguson
(born 1951)
October 5, 1999 April 28, 2006 6 years, 205 days Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
18 Don Kohn
(born 1942)
June 23, 2006 June 23, 2010 4 years, 0 days George W. Bush
19 Janet Yellen
(born 1946)
October 4, 2010 February 3, 2014 3 years, 122 days Barack Obama
20 Stan Fischer
(born 1943)
June 16, 2014 October 16, 2017 3 years, 122 days
21 Richard Clarida
(born 1957)
September 17, 2018 January 14, 2022 3 years, 119 days Donald Trump
22 Lael Brainard
(born 1962)
May 23, 2022 February 18, 2023 271 days Joe Biden
23 Philip Jefferson
(born 1961/1962)
September 13, 2023 Incumbent 280 days

Notes[change | change source]

  1. The start date given here for each officeholder is the day they took the oath of office, and the end date is the day of their term expiration, resignation, retirement, or death.
  2. A fixed term with reappointment for the Vice Chair, then known as Vice Governor, was not added to the Federal Reserve Act until the Banking Act of 1935 (P.L. 74-305, 49 Stat. 684).

References[change | change source]

  1. 5 U.S.C. § 5313
  2. "Can the President Fire the Chairman of the Federal Reserve?". Archived from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  3. "Philip N. Jefferson sworn in as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System". Federal Reserve. Retrieved September 13, 2023.