Trump Nominates Federal Reserve Governor Bowman as Vice Chair for Supervision

Trump Nominates Federal Reserve Governor Bowman as Vice Chair for Supervision
U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman poses at a conference on monetary policy at The Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif., on May 3, 2019. Ann Saphir/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump nominated Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman to the central bank’s top regulatory post as vice chair for supervision where she is expected to oversee an agenda of relaxed rule-writing and bank oversight.

A former community banker and frequent critic of overzealous bank regulation, Bowman would replace Michael Barr, who stepped down from the supervision post at the end of February to avert a potential legal dispute with the Trump administration.