President Obama Announces Plan to Nominate Federal Reserve Board Governor For Deputy Treasury Secretary

Federal Reserve Department of Treasury

On July 31, President Obama announced that he will nominate Federal Reserve Board Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin as Deputy Treasury Secretary. Ms. Raskin was appointed to her current position by President Obama in October 2010, and her term is not due to end until January 2016. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Ms. Raskin served as Maryland’s Commissioner of Financial Regulation and before that was Managing Director at the Promontory Financial Group. She is a lawyer and previously served as the Banking Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.