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Director of United States Mint
since March 31, 2025
AppointerPresident of the United States
Term length5 years
FormationApril 1792
First holderDavid Rittenhouse
Seal of the United States Mint.

The director of the United States Mint is the chief officer of the United States Mint. It is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation. The incumbent is Ventris Gibson, who became director of the Mint on June 22, 2022, after serving in acting capacity.

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

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The following persons served as director of the United States Mint:[2]

No. Image Name Tenure Refs. 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 Coolidge
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 September 10, 1981 August 1991 Reagan
34 David J. Ryder September 1992 November 24, 1993 Bush, G. H. W.
35 Philip N. Diehl June 1994 March 2000 Clinton
36 Jay W. Johnson May 2000 August 2001
37 Henrietta H. Fore August 7, 2001 August 2, 2005 [3][4] Bush, G. W.
38 Edmund C. Moy September 5, 2006 January 9, 2011 [5][6]
Acting Richard A. Peterson January 10, 2011 March 2017 ??? [7] Obama
Acting David Motl January 20, 2017 January 31, 2018 [8]
Acting Dave Croft February 1, 2018 April 11, 2018 [9]
39 David J. Ryder April 12, 2018 September 30, 2021 [10][11] Trump
Acting Alison Doone October 1, 2021 June 21, 2022 [12]
40 Ventris Gibson June 22, 2022 March 31, 2025 [13][14] Biden
Acting Kristie McNally April 1, 2025 present [15] Trump

See also

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References

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  1. ^ https://www.wsgw.com/bay-city-native-takes-charge-of-u-s-mint/
  2. ^ "Former Directors of the United States Mint". United States Mint.
  3. ^ "Henrietta Holsman Fore Sworn in as Director of U.S. Mint". United States Mint. August 7, 2001.
  4. ^ "Henrietta Fore -- Department of State". The White House. Henrietta H. Fore was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Management on August 2, 2005.
  5. ^ "Edmund C. Moy Sworn in as 38th Director of the United States Mint". United States Mint. September 5, 2006.
  6. ^ "Director of United States Mint Resigns". United States Mint. December 20, 2010.
  7. ^ Gibbs, William T. (January 8, 2015). "United States Mint gets new number 1 deputy director". Coin World.
  8. ^ "David Motl to Retire From U.S. Mint Effective Jan. 31; Dave Croft Named Acting Director". CoinWeek. January 26, 2018.
  9. ^ "David J. Ryder Confirmed as 39th U.S. Mint Director". CoinWeek. March 23, 2018.
  10. ^ "David J. Ryder Sworn in as 39th United States Mint Director". United States Mint. April 12, 2018.
  11. ^ Feigenbaum, John (September 25, 2021). "Ryder Suddenly Out as Director of the U.S. Mint". Grey Sheet.
  12. ^ "Treasury Announces New U.S. Mint Acting Director". U.S. Department of the Treasury. September 24, 2021.
  13. ^ "Ventris C. Gibson Confirmed as 40th Director of the United States Mint". United States Mint. June 22, 2022.
  14. ^ Gilkes, Paul (March 20, 2025). "Gibson retires from Mint Director's position". Coin World.
  15. ^ "Bay City Native Takes Charge of U.S. Mint". WSGW-FM. April 22, 2025.
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