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Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

February 6, 2013

Each Federal Reserve Bank and its branches are supervised by a board of directors. Each board has three classes of directors (A, B, and C) with three members in each class.

Chair: Kirk A. Sykes
Deputy Chair: William D. Nordhaus

Class A Directors
Class A Directors are elected by member banks to represent member banks.

Richard E. Holbrook
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Eastern Bank Corporation

Peter L. Judkins
President and Chief Executive Officer
Franklin Savings Bank

Kathryn G. Underwood
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ledyard National Bank

Class B Directors
Class B Directors are elected by member banks to represent the public and are chosen with consideration of agriculture, commerce, industry, services, labor, and consumers.

Roger S. Berkowitz
President and Chief Executive Officer
Legal Sea Foods, LLC

John F. Fish
Chief Executive Officer
Suffolk Construction Company, Inc.

Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D.
 President and Chief Executive Officer
Partners HealthCare System

Class C Directors
Class C Directors are appointed by Board of Governors to represent the public and are chosen with consideration of agriculture, commerce, industry, services, labor, and consumers. Two Class C directors of the Bank are designated, by the Board of Governors, as chairman and deputy chairman of the board for one-year terms.

Catherine D’Amato
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Greater Boston Food Bank

William D. Nordhaus (Deputy Chair)
Sterling Professor of Economics
Yale University

Kirk A. Sykes (Chair)
President
Urban Strategy America Fund

Federal Advisory Council (FAC) Representative

Joseph L. Hooley
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
State Street Corporation