Senate confirms Barr as Fed Vice Chairman for Supervision

Federal Issues Federal Reserve Supervision

On July 14, the U.S. Senate voted 66 to 28 to confirm Michael Barr as Vice Chairman for Supervision at the Federal Reserve for a four-year term. Barr was also confirmed by a 66-28 vote to serve the 10-year balance of a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He fills the last vacant seat on the Fed’s seven-member board. Barr is currently a law and public policy professor at the University of Michigan, and previously served as the assistant secretary for financial institutions in the Treasury Department where he had a key role in the creation of the Dodd-Frank Act (covered by InfoBytes here).