Sarah Bloom Raskin
 Sarah Bloom Raskin     (lawyer, central banker) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Sarah Bloom April 15, 1961 Medford, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Amherst College, Harvard Law School | ||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Jewish | ||||||||||||||||||
| Parents | • Arlene Perlis Bloom • Herbert Bloom | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Jamie Raskin | ||||||||||||||||||
Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and a former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
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Sarah Bloom Raskin is an American attorney and regulator, who was formerly a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and a former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Previously, she served as Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation (in a state with lax financial practices) and as a managing director at the Promontory Financial Group.[1] She is a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University.
Background
Sarah Bloom was born to a Jewish family in Medford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Arlene (née Perlis) and Herbert Bloom.[2][3][4] Bloom attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois, where she graduated in 1979.[5]
After graduating from high school, she went on to Amherst College where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics in 1983, and wrote her undergraduate thesis on monetary policy. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. Raskin was honored with an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Muhlenberg College on May 19, 2019.[6]
Government career
Raskin worked as an associate at Arnold & Porter and as counsel for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee.[7] Prior to serving as Commissioner, she was a managing director at the Promontory Financial Group. Raskin was also chief financial regulator for Maryland.[8]
President Obama nominated Raskin to the Federal Reserve Board along with fellow nominees Dr. Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Peter A. Diamond.[5] Raskin and Yellen were unanimously confirmed as Federal Reserve Board governors by the United States Senate on September 30, 2010.[9] On October 4, 2010, both were sworn in by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.[10][8]
On July 31, 2013, President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Raskin to the second-in-command position of Deputy Secretary at the United States Department of the Treasury.[11][12][8] Raskin was sworn in on March 19, 2014.[13] Upon her confirmation as Deputy Secretary she resigned as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on March 13, 2014.[14] While serving her term, Raskin had a special focus on the macroeconomic impact of student loan borrowing and cyber security.
Post-government career
During the 2017–18 academic year, Raskin was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. During the 2018–19 and 2019–20 academic years, Raskin was a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University.
In November 2020, Bloom Raskin was reported to be under consideration for Secretary of the Treasury in the Biden Administration.[15] In 2021, she was mentioned as a potential candidate to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).[16]
References
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sarah-bloom-raskin/gIQAJPvNKP_print.html
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=4vLNkPFGO_UC&q=Sarah+Bloom+Raskin+1961
- ↑ https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/jewish-insider-s-daily-kickoff-april-13-2018-1.5995201
- ↑ http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v3/obitjump/herbert_bloom_87/
- ↑ a b https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704302304575213850582215096
- ↑ https://m.muhlenberg.edu/visitors/social/detail?feed=facebook&id=138308188259_10157062495633260
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/business/economy/13fed.html
- ↑ a b c https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/12/senate-confirms-fed-governor-for-no-2-post-at-treasury/
- ↑ Business news in brief Two confirmed to Fed board; BP updates safety practices; earnings reports KansasCity.com, September 29, 2010 (October 9, 2010)
- ↑ Fed Press Release federalreserve.gov, October 4, 2010 (October 9, 2010)
- ↑ Ylan Q. Mui, Wash. Post, Fed’s Raskin is chosen for deputy Treasury secretary, July 31, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.periodicalpress.senate.gov/%7Cpublisher=United States Senate
- ↑ http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/news/Pages/Sarah-Bloom-Raskin-Sworn-in-as-Deputy-Secretary.aspx}
- ↑ http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/boardmembership.htm%7Cwork=Appointive Members
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/erinspencer1/2020/11/16/meet-the-women-being-considered-for-treasury-secretary
- ↑ https://www.americanbanker.com/news/three-new-candidates-emerge-to-head-occ
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