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Yellen was born on August 13, 1946, to a family of Polish Jewish ancestry in the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, neighborhood of New York City, and grew up there. Her mother was Anna Ruth (née Blumenthal; 1907–1986), an elementary school teacher who gave up her teaching job to become a stay-at-home mother.
Janet Yellen was the first woman to lead the United States Department of the Treasury and to chair the Federal Reserve Board. After receiving her PhD in economics at Yale, Yellen spent much of her academic career studying wages and unemployment.
• Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury. She is the first woman to fill this role; previously, she headed the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. A 2016 Trump attack ad featured three Jews,...
Yellen already made history as the first woman chair of the Federal Reserve, but now she has been appointed to be the first female Treasury secretary. The respected centrist was one of three...
Janet Yellen, born on August 13, 1946, in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, to a Polish Jewish family, has had a distinguished career in economics and public service.
Janet Yellen, the pioneering Jewish economist who was the first woman to head the Federal Reserve, is on Biden’s shortlist, according to multiple reports.
Dr. Janet Yellen is the current Chairwoman of the United States Federal Reserve. She was born in Brooklyn and holds degrees in economics from both Brown and Yale.
