Federal Reserve Board

The Federal Reserve Board, that is, "the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. A full term is fourteen years. One term begins every two years, on February 1 of even-numbered years. A member who serves a full term may not be reappointed. A member who completes an unexpired portion of a term may be reappointed. All terms end on their statutory date regardless of the date on which the member is sworn into office." 

"The Chairman and the Vice Chairman of the Board are named by the President from among the members and are confirmed by the Senate. They serve a term of four years. A member's term on the Board is not affected by his or her status as Chairman or Vice Chairman." 

S.3217 Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010
After negotiation in both the House and Senate, Congress was able to come to an agreement regarding further disclosure of the federal reserve. "Members of a House-Senate conference committee agreed to grant the Government Accountability Office broad authority to examine the operations of the Fed and to require additional disclosures from the central bank." "The Fed, which persuaded lawmakers not to reduce its political autonomy and bank supervision powers, will still have to expose its inner workings to public view more than ever before in its 96-year history. Lawmakers faulted the central bank for lax supervision before the financial crisis and demanded transparency on its more than $2 trillion in loans."

"The conference committee accepted the Senate's language that would require the Fed to make available on its website the conditions of the loans, including interest rates and collateral posted, that were issued by the special facilities created during the financial crisis. This will allow members of the public and the media to scrutinize these loans to ensure that proper practices were followed. The Fed will also be obligated to disclose the conditions of loans from special facilities created in the future. Unfortunately, the wording on this future disclosure requirement could lead to a delay of many years between the issuance of the loans and any public disclosure or a GAO audit. The conference committee also agreed to require the Fed to disclose its discount window transactions and open market operations after a two-year lag. This reverses a previous insistence by the Fed that these transactions must be protected from disclosure."

Current Members of the Board

 * Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman
 * Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Vice Chairman
 * Susan Schmidt Bies
 * Donald L. Kohn
 * Randall S. Kroszner
 * Mark W. Olson
 * Kevin M. Warsh

Advisory Councils

 * Consumer Advisory Council.
 * Federal Advisory Council.
 * Thrift Institutions Advisory Council.

Also see

 * Alan J. Greenspan, Former Chairman
 * bank
 * banking
 * Federal Reserve Act
 * Federal Reserve Corporation