---
type: Body
title: "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System"
classification: "executive-agency"
chamber: "executive"
code: "EXEC-FEDERAL-RESERVE"
head: "us/executive/federal-reserve/chairman"
sources:
  - field: definition
    source: "5 U.S.C. § 5312 (Executive Schedule, Level I)"
confidence: official
tags: [body, executive, executive-agency]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---

# Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Executive agency. Its head, the [Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System](/us/executive/federal-reserve/chairman.md), is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. § 5312).

## Referenced by the U.S. Code

304 sections of the U.S. Code reference this agency. A sample:

- [5 U.S.C. § 415](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-415.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5313](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5313.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 807](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-8/section-807.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 8402](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-84/section-8402.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 8411](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-84/section-8411.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 1a](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-1/section-1a.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-1/section-2.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2016](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-51/section-2016.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 27d](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-1/section-27d.md)
- [10 U.S.C. § 987](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-49/section-987.md)
- [11 U.S.C. § 109](/legal/us/code/title-11/chapter-1/section-109.md)
- [11 U.S.C. § 781](/legal/us/code/title-11/chapter-7/section-781.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 122a](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-2/section-122a.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 144](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-2/section-144.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1462](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-12/section-1462.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1701p–1](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-13/section-1701p-1.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1708](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-13/section-1708.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1715z–20](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-13/section-1715z-20.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1715z–23](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-13/section-1715z-23.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1783](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-14/section-1783.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1795j](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-14/section-1795j.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1813](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-16/section-1813.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1817](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-16/section-1817.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 1818](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-16/section-1818.md)
- …and 279 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)