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The Honorable Debbie Matz, Chairman
Debbie Matz was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the eighth board
chair of the National Credit Union Administration. After confirmation by the U.S.
Senate on August 7, 2009, she was sworn in on August 24, 2009. Mrs. Matz is no stranger
to NCUA and credit unions having served as a board member at NCUA from January 2002
to October 2005.
As Chair of the NCUA Board, Mrs. Matz is the spokesperson for the agency and oversees
the regulation of federal credit unions and the administration of the federal insurance
fund covering approximately 8,000 credit unions with over $800 billion in assets.
Prior to becoming NCUA board chair, Mrs. Matz served on President Obama’s Economic
Transition Team.
From 2006 until June 2008, Mrs. Matz was the Executive Vice-President/Chief Operating
Officer of a federal credit union serving
90,000 members with branches in the United
States and Europe.
A public servant for 26 years, Mrs. Matz was appointed
by President Bill Clinton to serve in the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1993
to 2001. As Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, she oversaw the administrative
arm of the 100,000-employee agency.
Mrs. Matz has extensive experience on Capitol Hill. She served for nine years as
an economist with the Congressional Joint Economic Committee where she advised Members
of Congress on a wide range of domestic policy issues including state and local
government finance, economic development, and housing and infrastructure financing.
Mrs. Matz has been published extensively on these issues. Previously she served
as a project director in the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress,
as a legislative assistant to Congressman Peter Peyser (R-NY), and as a community
development representative for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
She received a master’s degree from George Washington University and a bachelor’s
degree from Cornell University. A native New Yorker, she is married to Marshall
Matz, has two grown children and resides in McLean, Virginia.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), governed by a three-member board,
is the independent federal agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions.
NCUA, with the backing of the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, operates
the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF), insuring the deposits of
80 million account holders in all federal credit unions and many state-chartered
credit unions.