Nominees Philip Jefferson, Lisa Cook and Adriana Kugler were approved by the Senate Banking Committee, teeing up a vote in the full Senate later this year.
's three nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on Wednesday, teeing up a vote in the full Senate later this year.as Biden's nominee for vice chair of the Federal Reserve. If the full Senate confirms him, Jefferson will replace Lael Brainard, who left her position at the Fed to lead Biden's National Economic Council earlier this year.
Lisa Cook, who Biden has nominated for a full, 14-year term on the Federal Reserve Board, was approved 13-10 by the panel. Cook first joined the board in 2022, when the full Senate narrowly confirmed her to fill an unexpired term. The third nominee the committee advanced was Adriana Kugler, whom Biden tapped in May to join the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for the first time. Kugler was also approved 13-10, with all Democrats and South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds voting in favor. Kugler is currently the U.S. representative to the World Bank and executive director of the World Bank Group for the U.S.
If the full Senate approves the three nominees, Kugler, Jefferson, and Cook's Fed confirmations will all mark milestones in racial and ethnic diversity on America's interest-rate setting board. Kugler would become the first Hispanic American on the Fed's Board of Governors, and Cook would become the first Black woman confirmed for a full term. Jefferson would be only the second Black person to hold the vice chair position in the history of the Fed board.
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