Michael Barr (U.S. official)

Michael Barr
Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve
In office
July 19, 2022  February 28, 2025
PresidentJoe Biden
Donald Trump
Preceded byRandal Quarles
Succeeded byMichelle Bowman
Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Assumed office
July 19, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Donald Trump
Preceded byRandal Quarles
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance
Acting
In office
May 2009  March 27, 2010
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byAnthony Ryan (Acting)
Succeeded byJeffrey A. Goldstein
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions
In office
May 2009  January 2011
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDavid Nason
Succeeded byCyrus Amir-Mokri
Personal details
Born
Michael Solomon Barr

(1965-10-06) October 6, 1965
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseHannah Smotrich
Children3
EducationYale University (BA, JD)
Magdalen College, Oxford (MPhil)

Michael Solomon Barr (born October 6, 1965) is an American legal scholar who has been serving as governor of the Federal Reserve since 2022. Barr served as second Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve from 2022 until 2025. From 2009 to 2011, he was assistant secretary of the treasury for financial institutions under President Barack Obama. At the University of Michigan, he has been serving as faculty member since 2001, professor of law since 2006, professor of public policy since 2014, on leave while serving as governor of the Federal Reserve.

Previously, Barr served as dean at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and faculty director of the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law, and Policy. Barr is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.