WASHINGTON – Doreen R. Eberley, Director of the Division of Risk Management Supervision (RMS), has announced that she will retire from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on March 29, 2025, following a distinguished 38-year career at the agency.

FDIC Chairman Gruenberg said, “Doreen epitomizes the FDIC’s dedication to its mission of maintaining public confidence in the banking system.  As Director of our Division of Risk Management Supervision, she has set the highest standards of performance with ceaseless commitment and extraordinary leadership.  It has been a privilege to work with her.”

The FDIC Board of Directors appointed Ms. Eberley to lead RMS in January 2013.  During her tenure, she focused on embedding lessons from prior financial crises into the supervision program; strengthening and maturing the FDIC’s approach to the supervision of a growing portfolio of large, complex institutions; preparing the FDIC’s examiner workforce for the future; and modernizing the supervision technology systems.    

Prior to her appointment as Director, Ms. Eberley served as Senior Deputy Director in RMS and New York Regional Director and Deputy Regional Director.  During her tenure as Regional Director, she served on several special assignments.  She served a nearly year-long assignment to the FDIC’s Washington Office beginning in September 2008 as Acting Deputy Director in RMS, managing the Division’s strategic planning and resource management functions, leading a group to develop the eligibility criteria for the Debt Guaranty Program, and creating processes for the ongoing administration of the program.  This assignment was followed by a year-long assignment leading the Atlanta Region during the height of the financial crisis.  She additionally served a year-long assignment beginning in August 2010 as Acting Deputy to former Chairman Sheila Bair, where she led the work to develop a chief risk officer position for the FDIC.

Ms. Eberley began her career with the FDIC in 1987 in the Division of Liquidation in Bossier City, Louisiana, then transferred in 1988 to the then-Division of Bank Supervision and became a commissioned bank examiner.  She held a variety of positions within the supervision program area, including Applications Review Examiner, Case Manager, Senior Case Manager and Assistant Regional Director in Atlanta.  She served on the staff of the House Financial Services Committee through a fellowship program during the 105^th Congress. 

Ms. Eberley has served as the FDIC’s representative on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Task Force on Supervision for the past 12 years, serving as Chairman of the Task Force on several occasions.  She also serves as an Executive Sponsor for the FDIC’s Partnership of Women in the Workplace National Advisory Board and has served on Cornell University’s President’s Council of Cornell Women since 2014.

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