Debbie Matz

Debbie Matz served as the eighth board chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). She was appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. NCUA is an independent federal agency that oversees the United States’ credit union industry, which has more than $1.2 trillion in assets. NCUA supervises federal credit unions and operates the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF) that protects deposits up to $250,000 of nearly 105 million account holders in all federal credit unions and the overwhelming majority of state-chartered credit unions.

As NCUA board chairman, Matz served as one of ten voting members on the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Matz also represented NCUA on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, which she chaired for two years starting in April 2011, and as vice chairman on the board of NeighborWorks America.

Prior to becoming NCUA chairman, Matz served on President Obama’s Economic Transition Team. Previously, she was the executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Andrews Federal Credit Union, an $800 million federal credit union. From March 2002 to September 2005, Matz served as an NCUA board member. Matz served in the Clinton administration in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as deputy assistant secretary for administration.

Matz was born in New York; she is married to Marshall L. Matz and has two grown children, a daughter and a son.

Matz has a master's degree from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

As NCUA board chairman, Matz headed the independent agency that charters, regulates, and supervises more than 3,700 federal credit unions. NCUA also operates the NCUSIF, which protects accounts at more than 5,954 federally insured credit unions.

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