Michelle Bowman Promoted to Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve for Supervision
Bowman was originally confirmed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors during the first term of President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Senate today held a recorded vote to confirm one individual nominated by President Donald Trump to serve on an independent federal agency - specifically in the Federal Reserve System.
In a 48-46 vote, Michelle Bowman was confirmed as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve System for Supervision for a term of four years. The position has been vacant since February 2025, when Michael Barr resigned after serving since July 2022.
48 Republicans approved Bowman’s nomination. 44 Democrats and two Independents voted in opposition. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Steve Daines (R-MT), James Lankford (R-OK), Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Tim Sheehy (R-MT) did not vote.
Bowman was nominated to this position by Trump in March 2025. She has been a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since November 2018. She was nominated to the board by Trump in his first term and promoted during his second.
Previously, Bowman was a staffer on the U.S. House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure; and Oversight and Government Reform from 1997 to 2002. She was then appointed as Director of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security following the department’s creation.
In 2004, Bowman and her husband moved to London where she started her own public affairs and consulting business, the Bowman Group. In 2010, the family returned to the United States and she became Vice President of the Farmers & Drovers Bank. She left the role to become Bank Commissioner of Kansas - which she held from January 2017 to November 2018.
The seven-member Federal Reserve Board of Governors cannot have more than four members from the same political party. Bowman consists of the Republican minority alongside Chair Jerome Powell and Christopher Waller. The Democratic majority features Barr, Vice Chair Philip Jefferson, Lisa Cook, and Adriana Kugler.