Jerry L. Jordan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jerry Jordan became president and chief executive officer of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Cleveland on March 10, 1992.
Mr. Jordan has worked in government, academia, commercial banking, and previously in the Federal
Reserve System. After receiving a Ph.D. in economics at U.C.L.A., he was employed at the St. Louis Federal
Reserve Bank, rising to the position of senior vice president and director of research. At one point, he was
on leave from the St. Louis Fed to serve as a consultant to the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt.
Mr. Jordan's commercial banking experience includes five years of Pittsburg National Bank and
seven years at First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles. Mr. Jordan served as a member of President Reagan's
Council of Economic Advisers in 1981-82, during which time he was also a member of the U.S. Gold Commission.
Preceding and following his service in Washington, he was dean of the R.O. Anderson School of Management at the
University of New Mexico.
Mr. Jordan has been a consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, adjunct scholar at the
Cato Institute and adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and U.C.L.A. He is also past president
of the National Association of Business Economists.
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