Director of the United States Mint

Director of United States Mint
Incumbent Ventris Gibson (Acting) since October 25, 2021
Appointer	President of the United States
Term length	5 years
Formation	April 1792
First holder	David Rittenhouse

Seal of the United States Mint.

The director of the United States Mint is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation. The incumbent is , who became acting director of the Mint on October 1, 2021, after David J. Ryder left the office.^[1]

When the position of the director is vacant, the senior career (non-political) official of the mint serves as the acting director. Until the appointment of Ryder as director, the Mint had been without an official director since the resignation of Edmund C. Moy in 2011. Richard A. Peterson succeeded Moy. Peterson served between January 2011 and March 2017. The longest serving director was Nellie Ross. Ross, who had earlier been the first female governor in American history while serving the state of Wyoming, was director from 1933 until 1953.

In July 2015, Matthew Rhett Jeppson was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the Mint's 39th director and was given the temporary title of principal deputy director. However, the nomination was never confirmed by the Senate. Jeppson stepped down as principal deputy director in January 2017, then replaced by acting principal deputy director David Motl.

The office of director has existed since the creation of the Mint by the Coinage Act of 1792. Initially appointed serving at the pleasure of 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[]

No.	Image	Name	Tenure		Appointed by
			Assumed office	Left office
1		David Rittenhouse	April 1792	June 1795	Washington
2		Henry William de Saussure	July 1795	October 1795
3		Elias Boudinot	October 1795	July 1805
4		Robert Patterson	January 1806	July 1824	Jefferson
5		Samuel Moore	July 1824	July 1835	Monroe
6		Robert Maskell Patterson	May 1835	July 1851	Jackson
7		George Nicholas Eckert	July 1851	April 1853	Fillmore
8		Thomas M. Pettit	April 1853	May 1853	Pierce
9		James Ross Snowden	June 1853	May 1861
10		James Pollock	May 1861	September 1866	Lincoln
11		William Millward	October 1866	April 1867	Johnson
12		Henry Linderman	April 1867	May 1869
13		James Pollock	May 1869	March 1873	Grant
14		Henry Linderman	April 1873	December 1878
15		Horatio C. Burchard	February 1879	June 1885	Hayes
16		James P. Kimball	July 1885	October 1889	Cleveland
17		Edward O. Leech	October 1889	May 1893	Harrison
18		Robert E. Preston	November 1893	February 1898	Cleveland
19		George E. Roberts	February 1898	July 1907	McKinley
20		Frank A. Leach	September 1907	August 1909	Roosevelt, T.
21		A. Piatt Andrew	November 1909	June 1910	Taft
22		George E. Roberts	July 1910	November 1914
23		Robert W. Woolley	March 1915	July 1916	Wilson
24		Friedrich Johannes Hugo von Engelken	September 1916	March 1917
25		Raymond T. Baker	March 1917	March 1922
26		Frank Edgar Scobey	March 1922	September 1923	Harding
27		Robert J. Grant	November 1923	May 1933	Calvin
28		Nellie Tayloe Ross	May 3, 1933	April 1953	Roosevelt, F.
29		William H. Brett	July 1954	January 1961	Eisenhower
30		Eva Adams	October 1961	August 1969	Kennedy
31		Mary Brooks	September 1969	February 1977	Nixon
32		Stella Hackel Sims	November 1, 1977	April 1, 1981	Carter
33		Donna Pope	July 1981	August 1991	Reagan
34		David J. Ryder	September 1992	November 24, 1993	Bush Sr.
35		Philip N. Diehl	June 1994	March 2000	Clinton
36		Jay W. Johnson	May 2000	August 2001
37		Henrietta H. Fore	August 2001	August 2, 2005	Bush Jr.
38		Edmund C. Moy	September 5, 2006	January 9, 2011
39			January 2011	March 2017	Obama
40		David J. Ryder	April 12, 2018	October 1, 2021	Trump
–		(acting)	October 1, 2021	October 25, 2021	Biden
–		Ventris Gibson (acting)	October 25, 2021	Incumbent

See also[]

• United States Mint
• Treasurer of the United States
• Chief Engraver of the United States Mint
• Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
• Master of the Mint
• Warden of the Mint
• Master of the Mint (Canada)
• Moneyers of the Roman Republic

References[]

• "Directors of the Mint: 1792–2011". United States Mint. Archived from the original on May 10, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-10.