# Director of the United States Mint

The director of the United States Mint is the chief officer of the United States Mint. It is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation. The incumbent is Ventris Gibson, who became director of the Mint on June 22, 2022, after serving in acting capacity.
When the position of the director is vacant, the senior career (non-political) official of the mint serves as the acting director. Until the appointment of Ryder as director, the Mint had been without an official director since the resignation of Edmund C. Moy in 2011. Richard A. Peterson succeeded Moy. Peterson served between January 2011 and March 2017. The longest serving director was Nellie Ross. Ross, who had earlier been the first female governor in American history while serving the state of Wyoming, was director from 1933 until 1953.
In July 2015, Matthew Rhett Jeppson was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the Mint's 39th director and was given the temporary title of principal deputy director. However, the nomination was never confirmed by the Senate. Jeppson stepped down as principal deputy director in January 2017, then replaced by acting principal deputy director David Motl.
The office of director has existed since the creation of the Mint by the Coinage Act of 1792. Initially appointed serving at the pleasure of the president of the United States, the Coinage Act of 1873 specified a five-year term for directors. The director operates with general directions provided by the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

## List of directors of the United States Mint

| No. | Image | Name | Tenure | Tenure | Appointed by |
| No. | Image | Name | Assumed office | Left office | Appointed by |
| 1 | | David Rittenhouse | April 1792 | June 1795 | Washington |
| 2 | | Henry William de Saussure | July 1795 | October 1795 | Washington |
| 3 | | Elias Boudinot | October 1795 | July 1805 | Washington |
| 4 | | Robert Patterson | January 1806 | July 1824 | Jefferson |
| 5 | | Samuel Moore | July 1824 | July 1835 | Monroe |
| 6 | | Robert Maskell Patterson | May 1835 | July 1851 | Jackson |
| 7 | | George Nicholas Eckert | July 1851 | April 1853 | Fillmore |
| 8 | | Thomas M. Pettit | April 1853 | May 1853 | Pierce |
| 9 | | James Ross Snowden | June 1853 | May 1861 | Pierce |
| 10 | | James Pollock | May 1861 | September 1866 | Lincoln |
| 11 | | William Millward | October 1866 | April 1867 | Johnson |
| 12 | | Henry Linderman | April 1867 | May 1869 | Johnson |
| 13 | | James Pollock | May 1869 | March 1873 | Grant |
| 14 | | Henry Linderman | April 1873 | December 1878 | Grant |
| 15 | | Horatio C. Burchard | February 1879 | June 1885 | Hayes |
| 16 | | James P. Kimball | July 1885 | October 1889 | Cleveland |
| 17 | | Edward O. Leech | October 1889 | May 1893 | Harrison |
| 18 | | Robert E. Preston | November 1893 | February 1898 | Cleveland |
| 19 | | George E. Roberts | February 1898 | July 1907 | McKinley |
| 20 | | Frank A. Leach | September 1907 | August 1909 | Roosevelt, T. |
| 21 | | A. Piatt Andrew | November 1909 | June 1910 | Taft |
| 22 | | George E. Roberts | July 1910 | November 1914 | Taft |
| 23 | | Robert W. Woolley | March 1915 | July 1916 | Wilson |
| 24 | | Friedrich Johannes Hugo von Engelken | September 1916 | March 1917 | Wilson |
| 25 | | Raymond T. Baker | March 1917 | March 1922 | Wilson |
| 26 | | Frank Edgar Scobey | March 1922 | September 1923 | Harding |
| 27 | | Robert J. Grant | November 1923 | May 1933 | Coolidge |
| 28 | | Nellie Tayloe Ross | May 3, 1933 | April 1953 | Roosevelt, F. |
| 29 | | William H. Brett | July 1954 | January 1961 | Eisenhower |
| 30 | | Eva Adams | October 1961 | August 1969 | Kennedy |
| 31 | | Mary Brooks | September 1969 | February 1977 | Nixon |
| 32 | | Stella Hackel Sims | November 1, 1977 | April 1, 1981 | Carter |
| 33 | | Donna Pope | September 10, 1981 | August 1991 | Reagan |
| 34 | | David J. Ryder | September 1992 | November 24, 1993 | Bush, G. H. W. |
| 35 | | Philip N. Diehl | June 1994 | March 2000 | Clinton |
| 36 | | Jay W. Johnson | May 2000 | August 2001 | Clinton |
| 37 | | Henrietta H. Fore | August 2001 | August 2, 2005 | Bush, G. W. |
| 38 | | Edmund C. Moy | September 5, 2006 | January 9, 2011 | Bush, G. W. |
| | | Richard A. Peterson | January 2011 | March 2017 | Obama |
| 39 | | David J. Ryder | April 12, 2018 | October 1, 2021 | Trump |
| 40 | | Ventris Gibson | June 22, 2022 | Incumbent | Biden |