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B. More About the FDIC

FDIC Board of Directors

Photograph of the FDIC Board of Directors
Seated (left to right): Thomas M. Hoenig, and Martin J. Gruenberg, Standing (left to right): Thomas J. Curry, Richard Cordray

Martin J. Gruenberg

Martin J. Gruenberg is the 20th Chairman of the FDIC, receiving Senate confirmation on November 15, 2012, for a five-year term. Mr. Gruenberg served as Vice Chairman and Member of the FDIC Board of Directors from August 22, 2005, until his confirmation as Chairman. He served as Acting Chairman from July 9, 2011, to November 15, 2012, and also from November 16, 2005, to June 26, 2006.

Mr. Gruenberg joined the FDIC Board after broad congressional experience in the financial services and regulatory areas. He served as Senior Counsel to Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD) on the staff of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs from 1993 to 2005. Mr. Gruenberg advised the Senator on issues of domestic and international financial regulation, monetary policy, and trade. He also served as Staff Director of the Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy from 1987 to 1992. Major legislation in which Mr. Gruenberg played an active role during his service on the Committee includes the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA); the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA); the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Mr. Gruenberg served as Chairman of the Executive Council and President of the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) from November 2007 to November 2012.

Mr. Gruenberg holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve Law School and an A.B. from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Thomas M. Hoenig

Thomas M. Hoenig was confirmed by the Senate as Vice Chairman of the FDIC on November 15, 2012. He joined the FDIC on April 16, 2012, as a member of the Board of Directors of the FDIC for a six-year term. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Deposit Insurers.

Prior to serving on the FDIC Board, Mr. Hoenig was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a member of the Federal Reserve System’s Federal Open Market Committee from 1991 to 2011.

Mr. Hoenig was with the Federal Reserve for 38 years, beginning as an economist, and then as a senior officer in banking supervision during the U.S. banking crisis of the 1980s. In 1986, he led the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank’s Division of Bank Supervision and Structure, directing the oversight of more than 1,000 banks and bank holding companies with assets ranging from less than $100 million to $20 billion. He became President of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank on October 1, 1991.

Mr. Hoenig is a native of Fort Madison, Iowa, and received a doctorate in economics from Iowa State University.

Thomas J. Curry

Thomas J. Curry was sworn in as the 30th Comptroller of the Currency on April 9, 2012. The Comptroller of the Currency is the administrator of national banks and federal savings associations, and chief officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC supervises approximately 1,700 national banks and federal savings associations and about 50 federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States. These institutions comprise nearly two-thirds of the assets of the commercial banking system. The Comptroller is a Director of NeighborWorks® America and also a member of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) where he served as Chairman for a two-year term from April 2013 until April 2015.

Prior to becoming Comptroller of the Currency, Mr. Curry served as a Director of the FDIC Board since January 2004, and as the Chairman of the NeighborWorks® America Board of Directors.

Prior to joining the FDIC’s Board of Directors, Mr. Curry served five Massachusetts Governors as the Commonwealth’s Commissioner of Banks from 1990 to 1991 and from 1995 to 2003. He served as Acting Commissioner from February 1994 to June 1995. He previously served as First Deputy Commissioner and Assistant General Counsel within the Massachusetts Division of Banks. He entered state government in 1982 as an attorney with the Massachusetts’ Secretary of State’s Office.

Mr. Curry served as the Chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors from 2000 to 2001, and served two terms on the State Liaison Committee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, including a term as Committee Chairman.

He is a graduate of Manhattan College (summa cum laude), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from the New England School of Law.

Richard Cordray

Richard Cordray serves as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He previously led the Bureau’s Enforcement Division.

Prior to joining the Bureau, Mr. Cordray served on the front lines of consumer protection as Ohio’s Attorney General. Mr. Cordray recovered more than $2 billion for Ohio’s retirees, investors, and business owners, and took major steps to help protect its consumers from fraudulent foreclosures and financial predators. In 2010, his office responded to a record number of consumer complaints, but Mr. Cordray went further and opened that process for the first time to small businesses and nonprofit organizations to ensure protections for even more Ohioans. To recognize his work on behalf of consumers as Attorney General, the Better Business Bureau presented Mr. Cordray with an award for promoting an ethical marketplace.

Mr. Cordray also served as Ohio Treasurer and Franklin County Treasurer, two elected positions in which he led state and county banking, investment, debt, and financing activities. As Ohio Treasurer, he resurrected a defunct economic development program that provides low-interest loan assistance to small businesses to create jobs, re-launched the original concept as GrowNOW, and pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into access for credit to small businesses. Mr. Cordray simultaneously created a Bankers Advisory Council to share ideas about the program with community bankers across Ohio.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Cordray was an adjunct professor at the Ohio State University College of Law, served as a State Representative for the 33rd Ohio House District, was the first Solicitor General in Ohio’s history, and was a sole practitioner and Counsel to Kirkland & Ellis. Mr. Cordray has argued seven cases before the United States Supreme Court, by special appointment of both the Clinton and Bush Justice Departments. He is a graduate of Michigan State University, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Cordray was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Law Review and later clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy.

Mr. Cordray lives in Grove City, Ohio, with his wife Peggy—a Professor at Capital University Law School in Columbus—and twin children Danny and Holly.

Jeremiah O. Norton

Jeremiah O. Norton resigned from the FDIC Board of Directors as of June 5, 2015. Mr. Norton had been a Board member since April 16, 2012.

FDIC Organization Chart/Officials

FDIC Organization Chart/Officials

Corporate Staffing
Staffing Trends 2006–2015

Corporate Staffing Staffing Trends 2006-2015
Note: 2008-2015 staffing totals reflect year-end full time equivalent staff. Prior to 2008, staffing totals reflect total employees on-board.

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES BY DIVISION/OFFICE 2014 – 20151
Total Washington Regional/Field
Division or Office: 2015 2014 2015 2014 2015 2014
Division of Risk Management Supervision 2,683 2,704 208 205 2,475 2,500
Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection 841 853 122 128 719 725
Division of Resolutions and Receiverships 719 884 149 159 570 725
Legal Division 564 601 356 375 208 226
Division of Administration 367 372 251 245 116 127
Division of Information Technology 319 324 252 254 67 70
Corporate University 194 205 187 196 7 9
Division of Insurance and Research2 205 196 163 154 42 42
Division of Finance 171 170 169 168 2 2
Information Security and Privacy Staff 36 33 36 33 0 0
Office of Inspector General 119 115 74 73 46 42
Office of Complex Financial Institutions2 62 68 52 59 10 9
Executive Offices2 22 23 22 23 0 0
Executive Support Offices3 84 85 76 76 8 9
Total 6,385 6,631 2,115 2,147 4,270 4,485
1The FDIC reports staffing totals using a full-time equivalent methodology, which is based on an employee’s scheduled work hours. Division/Office staffing has been rounded to the nearest whole FTE. Totals may not foot due to rounding. 2 Includes the Offices of the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Director (Appointive), Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Information Officer. 3 Includes the Offices of Legislative Affairs, Communications, Ombudsman, Minority and Women Inclusion, and Corporate Risk Management.

Sources of Information

FDIC Website

www.fdic.gov

A wide range of banking, consumer, and financial information is available on the FDIC’s website. This includes the FDIC’s Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE), which estimates an individual’s deposit insurance coverage; the Institution Directory, which contains financial profiles of FDIC-insured institutions; Community Reinvestment Act evaluations and ratings for institutions supervised by the FDIC; Call Reports, which are bank reports of condition and income; and Money Smart, a training program to help individuals outside the financial mainstream enhance their money management skills and create positive banking relationships. Readers also can access a variety of consumer pamphlets, FDIC press releases, speeches, and other updates on the agency’s activities, as well as corporate databases and customized reports of FDIC and banking industry information.

FDIC Call Center

PHONE: 877-275-3342 (877-ASK-FDIC)
703-562-2222
Hearing Impaired:800-925-4618
703-562-2289

The FDIC Call Center in Washington, DC, is the primary telephone point of contact for general questions from the banking community, the public, and FDIC employees. The Call Center directly, or with other FDIC subject-matter experts, responds to questions about deposit insurance and other consumer issues and concerns, as well as questions about FDIC programs and activities. The Call Center also refers callers to other federal and state agencies as needed. Hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday – Friday, and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday – Sunday. Recorded information about deposit insurance and other topics is available 24 hours a day at the same telephone number.

As a customer service, the FDIC Call Center has many bilingual Spanish agents on staff and has access to a translation service, which is able to assist with over 40 different languages.

Public Information Center

3501 Fairfax Drive
Room E-1021
Arlington, VA 22226
PHONE:877-275-3342 (877-ASK-FDIC),
703-562-2200
FAX:703-562-2296
FDIC Online Catalog: https://vcart.velocitypayment.com/fdic/
E-MAIL: publicinfo@fdic.gov

Publications such as FDIC Quarterly and Consumer News and a variety of deposit insurance and consumer pamphlets are available at www.fdic.gov or may be ordered in hard copy through the FDIC online catalog. Other information, press releases, speeches and congressional testimony, directives to financial institutions, policy manuals, and FDIC documents are available on request through the Public Information Center.

Office of the Ombudsman

3501 Fairfax Drive
Room E-2022
Arlington, VA 22226
PHONE:877-275-3342 (877-ASK-FDIC)
FAX:703-562-6057
E-MAIL: ombudsman@fdic.gov

The Office of the Ombudsman (OO) is an independent, neutral, and confidential resource and liaison for the banking industry and the general public. The OO responds to inquiries about the FDIC in a fair, impartial, and timely manner. It researches questions and fields complaints from bankers and bank customers. OO representatives are present at all bank closings to provide accurate information to bank customers, the media, bank employees, and the general public. The OO also recommends ways to improve FDIC operations, regulations, and customer service.

Regional and Area Offices

Atlanta Regional Office

Michael J. Dean, Regional Director
10 Tenth Street, NE
Suite 800
Atlanta, Georgia  30309
(678) 916-2200

Chicago Regional Office

M. Anthony Lowe, Regional Director
300 South Riverside Plaza
Suite 1700
Chicago, Illinois  60606
(312) 382-6000

Dallas Regional Office

Kristie K. Elmquist, Regional Director
1601 Bryan Street
Dallas, Texas  75201
(214) 754-0098

Memphis Area Office

Kristie K. Elmquist, Director
6060 Primacy Parkway
Suite 300
Memphis, Tennessee  38119
(901) 685-1603

Kansas City Regional Office

James D. LaPierre, Regional Director
1100 Walnut Street
Suite 2100
Kansas City, Missouri  64106
(816) 234-8000

New York Regional Office

John F. Vogel, Regional Director
350 Fifth Avenue
Suite 1200
New York, New York 10118
(917) 320-2500

Boston Area Office

John F. Vogel, Director
15 Braintree Hill Office Park
Suite 100
Braintree, Massachusetts  02184
(781) 794-5500

San Francisco Regional Office

Stan Ivie, Regional Director
25 Jessie Street at Ecker Square
Suite 2300
San Francisco, California 94105
(415) 546-0160

 

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