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Roger W. Ferguson Jr.

1997–2006

GovernorVice ChairWikipedia

Born

Oct 28, 1951

Meetings at the table

77

77/79 (2 absent)

Geography

represented Boston (1), college · state of record Massachusetts · where the Board comes from

In their time

Meetings by Chair

Policy rate

5.5% → 4.75%

−75 bp · Nov 1997 – Apr 2006

Seats held

GovernorBoard of Governors1997–2006
Nov 5, 1997 – Apr 28, 2006 · confirmed Sep 29, 1999 · represents the Boston district (college)
Vice ChairBoard of Governors1999–2006
Oct 5, 1999 – Apr 28, 2006

Before the Fed

Lawyer · McKinsey

Education

Bachelor's, Economics — Harvard University (1973)
JD, Economics — Harvard University (1979)
PhD, Economics — Harvard Universtiy (1981)

Terminal: PhD · economics

Served alongside (375)

Chairs · 4

Alan Greenspan1997–2006
Ben S. Bernanke2002–2006
Janet L. Yellen2004–2006
Kevin M. Warsh2006–2006

Governors · 10

Donald L. Kohn1997–2006
Alice M. Rivlin1997–1999
Edward M. Gramlich1997–2005
Edward W. Kelley Jr.1997–2001
Elizabeth A. Duke

Rate moves

21 hikes · 16 cuts

35 holds at their meetings

Dissents witnessed

17

at 15 of 68 meetings

Unanimous

78%

53 of 68 meetings

Recessions

1

2001

US presidents

2

Clinton · G.W. Bush

1998–2000

Laurence H. Meyer1997–2002

Mark W. Olson2001–2006

Randall S. Kroszner2006–2006

Susan M. Phillips1997–1998

Susan S. Bies2001–2006

Reserve Bank presidents · 18

Sandra Pianalto1997–2006
Anthony M. Santomero2000–2006
Cathy E. Minehan1997–2006
Edward G. Boehne1997–2000
Gary H. Stern1997–2006
J. Alfred Broaddus Jr.1997–2004
Jack Guynn1997–2006
Jeffrey M. Lacker2004–2006
Jerry L Jordan1997–2003
Michael H. Moskow1997–2006
Richard W. Fisher2005–2006
Robert D. Mcteer Jr.1997–2004
Robert T. Parry1997–2004
Thomas C. Melzer1997–1998
Thomas M. Hoenig1997–2006
Timothy F. Geithner2003–2006
William J. Mcdonough1997–2003
William Poole1998–2006

Staff · 46

David J. Stockton2000–2006
Vincent R. Reinhart2001–2006
J. Virgil Mattingly, Jr.1997–2003
Christine M. Cumming2004–2006
Jennifer J. Johnson1998–2006
Michael J. Prell1997–1999
Jamie B. Stewart, Jr.1999–2003
Scott G. Alvarez2004–2006
Patrick K. Barron1997–2006
Brian F. Madigan2005–2006
Edwin M. Truman1997–1997
Helen E. Holcomb1997–2006
Paul M. Connolly1997–2006
Barry R. Snyder1998–2006
Brent L. Bowen1997–1997
Clyde H. Farnsworth, Jr.1997–1998
Colleen K. Strand1997–1999
David A. Sapenaro2006–2006
David L. Shannon1997–1997
Dolores S. Smith1998–2003
Ernest T. Patrikis1997–1997
Gordon R. G. Werkema2001–2006
Griffith L. Garwood1997–1997
H. Fay Peters2003–2006
James M. Lyon2000–2006
John F. Moore1997–2006
Karen H. Johnson1998–2006
Louise L. Roseman1999–2006
Marianne M. Emerson2002–2006
Richard C. Stevens1999–2001
Richard K. Rasdall, Jr.1997–2006
Richard Spillenkothen1997–2005
Robert Christy Moore2003–2006
Robert E. Frazier1997–2000
Roger T. Cole2006–2006
S. David Frost1997–1998
Sandra F. Braunstein2004–2006
Sarah G. Green2006–2006
Stephen J. Clark1999–2000
Stephen R. Malphrus1997–2006
W. Legrande Rives1997–2005
Walter A. Varvel1997–2005
William C. Conrad1997–2000
William H. Stone, Jr.1997–2006
William R. Jones2001–2002
William W. Wiles1997–1997

Reserve Bank directors · 297

James J. Howard1997–2001
William G. Smith, Jr.2001–2006
Jack B. Evans1998–2003
Dan M. Fisher2001–2003
Kenneth P. Wilcox2006–2006
Bradly W. Small2001–2004
Michael A. Alexander1997–2000
A. Drue Jennings1997–1997
A. Rogers Yarnell II2004–2006
Alan R. Tubbs1999–2004
Albert B. Murry1997–1998
Albert J. Simone2000–2002
Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.2006–2006
Ann M. Fudge1997–2002
Anthony R. Chase2004–2006
Arnold C. Schultz1997–1998
Arthur C. Martinez1997–2001
Barbara L. Wilson2001–2006
Barry J. Fitzpatrick2003–2005
Bert Greenwalt1999–2004
Bick Weissenrieder2003–2006
Blenda J. Wilson2002–2006
Bruce A. Schriefer1998–2003
Bruce Parker1998–2000
Candace Hunter Wiest2003–2006
Cece Smith1997–1997
Charisse R. Lillie1997–2002
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.1999–2000
Charles E. Bunch2003–2006
Charles H. Smith2006–2006
Charles P. Pizzi2006–2006
Charles V. Wait2003–2006
Charles W. Mueller1999–2004
Charles W. Nichols1997–1999
Cheryl L. Krueger-Horn1998–2003
Claudine B. Malone1997–1999
Colleen D. Hernandez1997–1999
Connie E. Evans2000–2005
Craig A. Ruppert1997–2001
Cynthia A. Parker1997–1998
Cynthia J. Brinkley2006–2006
D. Greg Heineman2001–2006
D. Paul Jones, Jr.1997–2000
D. Scott Davis2004–2006
Dale J. Emmel1997–1998
Dan Duane Angel1997–1999
Dan L. Dillingham2003–2006
Dana S. Boole2006–2006
David A. Daberko1997–1998
David A. Koch1997–1999
David B. Lee1997–1999
David H. Hoag1997–2002
David K.Y. Tang2003–2006
David L. Nichols1997–2002
David M. Ratcliffe2002–2006
David R. Jones1997–1998
David R. Pirsein2005–2006
David S. Barnard2002–2006
David S. Dahlmann1997–2000
David S. Outhouse2001–2003
Denis M. Hughes2004–2006
Dennis E. Barrett1997–2002
Dennis W. DiLazzero1997–1997
Dennis W. Johnson1997–1998
Donald J. Kennedy1997–1997
Donald J. Schneider1997–1998
Doris M. Damm2001–2006
Douglas C. Morrison2004–2006
Douglas M. Lester1997–1998
Dudley K. Montgomery1997–2001
E. Lynn Caswell1997–2002
Eddie Canterbury2002–2004
Edward Dugger, III1997–2000
Edwin J. Rigaud2006–2006
Edwin N. Clift1998–2000
Egbert L. J. Perry2002–2006
Ernest J. Sewell2004–2006
Eugene R. McGrath1997–2000
Eugene W. Rogers2004–2006
Frank A. Potenziani1997–2001
Frank Kaminski, Jr.2000–2001
Frank L. Sims2003–2006
Frank Moore2002–2006
Fred L. Green, III2000–2002
Frederick J. Mancheski1997–1997
G. Kenneth Perine1997–1999
G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.1997–1999
Garry L. Maddox2003–2006
Gary G. Michael1997–2000
Gayle Maltby Earls1997–1999
Gayle P.W. Jackson2000–2005
George A. Didden, III1997–1998
George M. Scalise2000–2005
George W. Hamlin, IV1997–2002
Gerald M. Levin2001–2002
Gerry Boyd Cameron1997–1997
Glenn A. Schaeffer1998–2003
Hans Helmerich1997–2003
Harry Elwell, III1998–2000
Harry M. Lightsey, III2005–2006
Henry Bartell Zachry, Jr.1999–2002
Henry L. Meyer, III2005–2006
Howard E. Cosgrove1997–2001
Howard L. McMillan, Jr.1997–1999
Hugh M. Brown1997–1997
Hunter R. Hollar2006–2006
I.N. Rendall Harper, Jr.1997–1998
Indra K. Nooyi2006–2006
Irl F. Engelhardt2005–2006
Irwin Zazulia1999–2002
J. Carter Bacot1997–1997
J. Richard Jones1997–1999
J. Stephen Barger2003–2004
J. Thomas May2006–2006
J. Walter McDowell1997–1999
Jack McNally2001–2006
James A. Martin1997–1999
James Byron Bexley2006–2006
James E. Haden1998–2003
James F. Beall2002–2006
James H. Keyes1999–2004
James J. Hynes2004–2006
James J. Norton1998–2003
James M. Culberson, Jr.1999–2001
James R. Wood2004–2005
James T. Hackett2006–2006
Jane C. Walsh1997–1997
Jay F. Hoeschler1999–2004
Jay Fitzsimmons2006–2006
Jay T. Harris2003–2003
Jean D. Kinsey1997–1997
Jeff Plagge2005–2006
Jeffrey L. Gerhart1999–2004
Jeffrey R. Immelt2006–2006
Jeremiah J. Sheehan1997–2002
Jerry I. Speyer2001–2006
Jill M. Considine2002–2006
Jo Marie Dancik1997–2001
Joan Carter1997–2000
Joe Edens2002–2004
John A. Canning, Jr.2004–2006
John C. Gerlach2006–2006
John C. Whitehead1997–1999
John Dane III2000–2003
John Edward Sexton2003–2006
John F. McDonnell1997–1998
John F. Wieland1997–2002
John H. Hoeven, Jr.2005–2006
John R. Cochran1999–2001
John V. Rindlaub1998–2000
John W. Marvin2006–2006
Joseph E. Gliessner, Jr.1997–2002
Juanita P. Baranco1997–2001
Judith Manville Runstad1997–1997
Judy Ley Allen1999–2006
Julie Spicer England1997–2003
Karla S. Chambers2005–2006
Kathleen C. Marcum2006–2006
Kathleen Walsh Carr2005–2006
Kathryn A. Ogren1997–2000
Kay Clevidence2002–2004
Kenneth R. Shoemaker2003–2005
Kenneth R. Sparks2004–2006
Kenneth T. Murphy2000–2002
Kevin K. Nunnink2004–2006
Kirk A. McLaughlin1997–2000
Kirk P. Pond2004–2006
Krestine M. Corbin1997–2000
L. Newton Thomas, Jr.1997–1997
L. Phillip Humann2006–2006
Lawrence K. Fish2002–2004
Lee M. Thomas2005–2006
Lemuel E. Lewis2005–2006
Les C. Vinney2005–2006
Lester H. McKeever, Jr.1997–2000
Lewis F. Mallory, Jr.2002–2006
Linda Hall Whitman2000–2005
Lisa M. Lynch2004–2006
Loretta E. Lynch2003–2005
Lu M. Cordova2005–2006
Lunsford W. Bridges2000–2005
Lynn M. Hoghaug1997–1999
Malcolm Gillis2000–2005
Maria Camila Leiva1997–2001
Mark T. Gaffney2004–2006
Mark W. Schifferdecker2004–2006
Marshall N. Carter1997–1998
Marta Tienda2003–2005
Matthew T. Doyle2001–2006
Michael L. Kubacki2004–2006
Michael T. Wedge2006–2006
Michele Tolela Myers1997–1997
Migdalia Rivera1997–1999
Miles D. White2002–2006
Mindy C. Meads2005–2005
Nelson C. Rising1998–2002
Orit Gadiesh2000–2005
P. Coleman Townsend, Jr.2002–2006
Patricia M. Patterson2000–2005
Paul M. Ferguson2000–2000
Paul T. Combs2005–2006
Paula Lovell1998–2003
Paula Marshall-Chapman2000–2002
Peter A. Blyberg2004–2006
Peter G. Peterson1997–2003
Peter J. Haddeland2006–2006
Philip L. McLaughlin1997–1997
Phillip R. Cox2000–2005
Randy Peterson2003–2006
Ray L. Hunt1998–2006
Rhonda Holman2000–2003
Richard C. Hartnack2001–2004
Richard C. White2001–2003
Richard E. Bell1997–1998
Richard G. Hickson2000–2005
Richard H. Bard2002–2005
Richard L. Carrion1999–1999
Richard S. Fuld, Jr.2005–2006
Richard W. Decker, Jr.2002–2006
Richard W. Evans, Jr.2003–2006
Rick L. Smalley2003–2006
Rob L. Wheeler1997–2002
Robert A. Estrada2005–2006
Robert A. Funk2003–2006
Robert C. Fricke2005–2006
Robert C. McNair1997–1998
Robert D. Burris1997–2000
Robert Dickson2003–2005
Robert E. Chappell2000–2005
Robert G. Wilmers1997–1998
Robert J. Darnall1997–2003
Robert J. Vanderslice2001–2003
Robert K. Kraft2003–2006
Robert L. Johnson1998–2003
Robert L. Strickland1997–1998
Robert R. Glauber1997–2001
Robert R. Yohanan1998–2003
Robert S. Attiyeh1997–2002
Robert W. Mahoney2000–2005
Robert Y. Farrington1997–1999
Roger N. Berglund2000–2002
Roger R. Hemminghaus1997–2000
Ronald E. Logue2005–2006
Ronald J. Naples2001–2005
Ronald N. Zwieg1998–2003
Ronay Menschel1998–2004
Rufus A. Fulton, Jr.1999–2001
Samuel O. Thier2002–2006
Samuel P. Baird1997–1997
Sandra B. Sanderson-Chesnut1997–1997
Sanford J. Weill2001–2006
Sheila D. Harris1999–2004
Sherwin Greenblatt2001–2003
Stanley T. Skinner1997–1998
Stefan S. Anderson1997–1997
Stephen L. Brown1997–1998
Stephen P. Wilson2001–2006
Susan S. Elliot1997–2000
Suzanne E. Boas1998–2004
T. Joseph Semrod2000–2001
Tanny B. Crane2003–2006
Teri G. Fontenot2004–2006
Terrence Murray1999–2001
Terrence P. Dunn1998–2002
Terry L. Moore2006–2006
Theresa M. Stone2003–2006
Thomas C. Dorr1997–1997
Thomas Gary Rogers2005–2006
Thomas H. Jacobsen1999–2001
Thomas J. Mackell, Jr.2003–2006
Thomas W. Jones1997–1997
Tiney M. McComb1997–2002
Todd L. Johnson2005–2006
V. Ann Hailey2004–2006
V. Larkin Martin2003–2006
Valerie B. Jarrett2006–2006
Veo Peoples, Jr.1997–1999
Verne G. Istock1997–2000
W. Henry Harmon2000–2005
W. James Farrell2001–2006
W.D. Glover1997–1999
Walter E. Daller, Jr.2002–2004
Walter L. Metcalfe, Jr.2001–2006
Walter V. Shipley, II1998–2000
Warren K.K. Luke1997–2001
Waymon L. Hickman1997–2001
Wayne R. Embry1999–2004
Wayne R. Weidner2005–2006
Wesley S. Williams, Jr.1997–2004
Willard William LaJoie1999–2001
William A. Osborn2001–2006
William C. Brainard1997–2001
William F. Hecht2004–2006
William L. McQuillan1997–1998
William Osgood Taylor1997–2002
William S. Pickerign1997–1997
William W. Duncan, Jr.2001–2003

Lineage

Board seat 4Lindsey1991–1997→1997–2006 · 8.9 months vacant before→Mishkin2006–2008

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