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  Raskin, Sarah Bloom
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NameSarah Bloom Raskin
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, Maryland , United States
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Born April 15, 1961 (63 years)
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Nov 20, 2022 02:30pm
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InfoSarah Bloom Raskin (Born April 1961) is an American attorney and regulator, who is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Previously, she served as Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation.

Raskin was born Sarah Bloom in Medford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Arlene (née Perlis) and Herbert Bloom. She holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in economics from Amherst College, where she wrote her undergraduate thesis on monetary policy.

Career

Raskin was nominated to the Federal Reserve Board by President Barack Obama, along with fellow nominees Dr. Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, nominated to be the board's vice chairman, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Peter A. Diamond.

Raskin and Yellen were unanimously confirmed as a Federal Reserve Board governor by the United States Senate on September 30, 2010. On October 4, 2010, both were sworn in by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Raskin is married to Jamie Raskin, a law professor and Democratic Maryland state senator. They have three teenage children.


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  03/12/2014 US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  09/29/2010 Member of the Federal Reserve Board Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
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  01/25/2021 US Secretary of the Treasury Lost 0.00% (-84.85%)
  11/30/2020 US National Economic Council Director Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
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