No Name (chair) (birth -- death) Photo Term of office Appointed by (term) Start of term End of term Charles Sumner Hamlin (1861 -- 1938) August 10, 1914 August 10, 1916 Woodrow Wilson (1913 -- 1921) William P.G. Harding (1864 -- 1930) August 10, 1916 August 9, 1922 Daniel R. Crissinger (1860 -- 1942) May 1, 1923 September 15, 1927 Warren G. Harding (1921 -- 1923) Roy A. Young (1882 -- 1960) October 4, 1927 August 31, 1930 Calvin Coolidge (1923 -- 1929) 5 Eugene Meyer (1875 -- 1959) September 16, 1930 May 10, 1933 Herbert Hoover (1929 -- 1933) 6 Eugene Robert Black (1873 -- 1934) May 19, 1933 August 15, 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 -- 1945) 7 Marriner S. Eccles (1890 -- 1977) November 15, 1934 February 3, 1948 8 Thomas B. McCabe (1893 -- 1982) April 15, 1948 April 2, 1951 Harry S. Truman (1945 -- 1953) 9 William M. Martin (1906 -- 1998) April 2, 1951 February 1, 1970 10 Arthur F. Burns (1904 -- 1987) February 1, 1970 January 31, 1978 Richard Nixon (1969 -- 1974) 11 G. William Miller (1925 -- 2006) March 8, 1978 August 6, 1979 Jimmy Carter (1977 -- 1981) 12 Paul Volcker (1927 --) August 6, 1979 August 11, 1987 13 Alan Greenspan (1926 --) August 11, 1987 January 31, 2006 Ronald Reagan (1981 -- 1989) 14 Ben Bernanke (1953 --) February 1, 2006 January 31, 2014 George W. Bush (2001 -- 2009) 15 Janet Yellen (1946 --) February 1, 2014 Incumbent Barack Obama (2009 -- 2017) 16 Jerome Powell (1953 --) TBD TBD Donald Trump (2017 --)
who is the current chair of the u.s. central bank and on what date did this person take office
Janet Yellen February 1, 2014