Key
Leader Biographies:
Horace G. Sneed
Director of the Litigations Division
Horace G. Sneed is the director of the Litigations Division at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Mr. Sneed joined the OCC in 1987, and was employed in the Litigation Division in 1994 where he initially served as a senior attorney. He was later
promoted to assistant director of the division in 1997. Mr. Sneed has actively represented the OCC in complex and controversial litigation concerning
state authority over national banks and their operating subsidiaries. He has also been active in litigated cases involving preemption of state law,
challenges to OCC licensing and enforcement decisions, discovery of OCC documents, and personnel matters.
Prior to joining the OCC, Mr. Sneed served as a law clerk for the Hon. Benjamin F. Gibson of the U.S. District Court in the Western District of
Michigan.
Mr. Sneed received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He obtained a bachelor's of arts in English Literature from Princeton
University.
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