# Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve

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. In the absence of the chair, the vice chair presides over the meetings Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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, and they serve concurrently as members of the Board of Governors. Both vice chairs may serve multiple terms, pending a new nomination and confirmation at the end of each term, with Ronald Ransom as the longest serving vice chair from 1936 to 1947. They cannot be dismissed by the president before the end of their term.
The position of vice chair is currently held by Philip Jefferson who was sworn in on September 13, 2023. The position of vice chair for supervision is currently vacant since Michael Barr's resignation which took effect on February 28, 2025.

## Appointment process

As stipulated by the Banking Act of 1935, the president may designated to serve as Vice Chairman of the Board for four-year terms with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among the sitting governors. The Senate Committee responsible for vetting a Federal Reserve vice chair and vice chair for supervision nominees is the Senate Committee on Banking.

## Duties of the Fed vice сhairs

The vice chair of the Board shall serve in the absence of the chair as leader of the Federal Reserve system until chair's replacement was installed by the Senate.
By law, the vice chair, as part of the Board, make a full report of its operations to the speaker of the House, on progress towards the Fed's responsibilities and monetary policy objectives, which are "maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates."
The duties of the vice chair for supervision would include developing policy recommendations regarding supervision and regulation for the Board. The vice chairman of supervision will report to Congress semiannually on the efforts of the board with respect to the conduct of supervision and regulation.
By law, the vice chair for supervision shall appear before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the House Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and at semi-annual hearings regarding the efforts, activities, objectives, and plans of the Board with respect to the conduct of supervision and regulation of depository institution holding companies and other financial firms supervised by the Board.

## Conflict of interest law

The law applicable to the chair, vice chairs and all other members of the board provides (in part):
   No member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall be an officer or director of any bank, banking institution, trust company, or Federal Reserve bank or hold stock in any bank, banking institution, or trust company; and before entering upon his duties as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System he shall certify under oath that he has complied with this requirement, and such certification shall be filed with the secretary of the Board.

## Salary

The Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve and the Vice Chair for Supervision are Level II positions in the Executive Schedule, thus earning the salary prescribed for that level (US$203,700, as of January 2023).

## List of Fed vice chairs

The following is a list of past and present vice chairs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A vice chair serves for a four-year term after appointment, but may be reappointed for several consecutive four-year terms. Since the Federal Reserve was established in 1914, the following people have served as vice chair.
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Tenure length | Appointed by |
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–death) | Start of term | End of term | Tenure length | Appointed by |
| 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 | Woodrow Wilson |
| 3 | | Albert Strauss (1864–1929) | October 26, 1918 | March 15, 1920 | 1 year, 141 days | Woodrow Wilson |
| 4 | | Edmund Platt (1865–1939) | July 23, 1920 | September 14, 1930 | 10 years, 53 days | Woodrow Wilson |
| 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 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 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 | Ronald Reagan |
| 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 | Bill Clinton |
| 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 | Barack Obama |
| 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 | 1 year, 178 days | Joe Biden |

## List of Fed vice chairs for supervision

The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which came into force on July 21, 2010, required the president to designate, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a new "Vice Chairman for Supervision," who "shall develop policy recommendations for the Board regarding supervision and regulation of depository institution holding companies and other financial firms supervised by the Board and shall oversee the supervision and regulation of such firms." Since the Dodd–Frank Act was enacted in 2010, the following people have served as vice chair for supervision.
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Tenure length | Appointed by |
| # | Portrait | Name (Birth–death) | Start of term | End of term | Tenure length | Appointed by |
| 1 | | Randy Quarles (born 1957) | October 13, 2017 | October 13, 2021 | 4 years, 0 days | Donald Trump |
| 2 | | Michael Barr (born 1965) | July 19, 2022 | February 28, 2025 | 2 years, 224 days | Joe Biden |