Mary Ann Hood

Mary Ann Hood oversees the Bank’s Human Resources function and Law Enforcement and is a member of the Bank’s Management and Policy Committee. In 2011, she was named director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for the Philadelphia Reserve Bank, with the primary responsibility for workforce and supplier diversity for the Bank. She has been with the Federal Reserve System since 1982 when she started working in bank operations for the New Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She has also worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Memphis Branch. She joined the Philadelphia Fed in Retail Payments in 1990 and assumed responsibility for Human Resources and EEO in 2004.

She is a member of the Federal Reserve System’s Diversity Council. She cochairs the Philadelphia Fed’s volunteerism initiative, PhillyFedCARES, and was appointed to the Commonwealth’s Early Learning Investment Commission in 2010.

Hood has a master’s degree in human resource development from Villanova University and a bachelor's degree from Hood College. She is certified as a senior professional in human resources.