Director of the United States Mint

Seal of the United States Mint.

The Director of the United States Mint is the head of the United States Mint. The position is currently vacant following the resignation of Edmund C. Moy in January 2011. Richard A. Peterson was named Deputy Director of the United States Mint on January 25, 2011. The President nominated Bibiana Boerio to the position in September, 2012. [1]

The position has been in continuous existence since the creation of the Mint by the Coinage Act of 1792. Initially appointed serving at the approbation the President of the United States, the Coinage Act of 1873 specified a five-year term for Directors.

The Director operates with general directions provided by the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

List of Directors of the United States Mint

Name	Assumed Office	Left Office	President Appointed By
David Rittenhouse	April 1792	June 1795	George Washington
Henry William de Saussure	July 1795	October 1795	George Washington
Elias Boudinot	October 1795	July 1805	George Washington
Robert Patterson	January 1806	July 1824	Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Moore	July 1824	July 1835	James Monroe
Robert M. Patterson	May 1835	July 1851	Andrew Jackson
George Nicholas Eckert	July 1851	April 1853	Millard Fillmore
Thomas M. Pettit	April 1853	May 1853	Franklin Pierce
James Ross Snowden	June 1853	May 1861	Franklin Pierce
James Pollock	May 1861	September 1866	Abraham Lincoln
William Millward	October 1866	April 1867	Andrew Johnson
Henry Linderman	April 1867	May 1869	Andrew Johnson
James Pollock	May 1869	March 1873	Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Linderman	April 1873	December 1878	Ulysses S. Grant
Horatio C. Burchard	February 1879	June 1885	Rutherford B. Hayes
James P. Kimball	July 1885	October 1889	Grover Cleveland
Edward O. Leech	October 1889	May 1893	Benjamin Harrison
Robert E. Preston	November 1893	February 1898	Grover Cleveland
George E. Roberts	February 1898	July 1907	William McKinley
Frank A. Leach	September 1907	August 1909	Theodore Roosevelt
Abram Andrew	November 1909	June 1910	William Howard Taft
George E. Roberts	July 1910	November 1914	William Howard Taft
Robert W. Woolley	March 1915	July 1916	Woodrow Wilson
F. H. von Engelken	September 1916	March 1917	Woodrow Wilson
Raymond T. Baker	March 1917	March 1922	Woodrow Wilson
Frank Edgar Scobey	March 1922	September 1923	Warren G. Harding
Robert J. Grant	November 1923	May 1933	Calvin Coolidge
Nellie Tayloe Ross	May 1933	April 1953	Franklin D. Roosevelt
William H. Brett	July 1954	January 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eva Adams	October 1961	August 1969	John F. Kennedy
Mary Brooks	September 1969	February 1977	Richard Nixon
Stella Hackel Sims	November 1977	April 1981	Jimmy Carter
Donna Pope	July 1981	August 1991	Ronald Reagan
David J. Ryder	September 1992	November 1993	George H. W. Bush
Philip N. Diehl	June 1994	March 2000	Bill Clinton
Jay W. Johnson	May 2000	August 2001	Bill Clinton
Henrietta H. Fore	August 2001	August 2005	George W. Bush
Edmund C. Moy	September 2006	January 2011	George W. Bush

External links

• Nomination forwarded to the U.S. Senate [2]
• List of Directors of the United States Mint