![]() ![]() Bloom attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois, where she graduated in 1979. Sarah Bloom was born to a Jewish family in Medford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Arlene (née Perlis) and Herbert Bloom. On March 15, 2022, she withdrew her nomination due to opposition from Republican senators and Democratic senator Joe Manchin. ![]() In January 2022, President Joe Biden nominated her to succeed Randal Quarles as vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve. In May 2017, she was elected to the board of directors for Reserve Trust Company, a Fintech company based in Colorado. She is a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University. She also was Maryland commissioner of financial regulation and a managing director at the Promontory Financial Group. A member of the Democratic Party, Bloom Raskin previously served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2010 to 2014. A public memorial is expected to take place virtually later in January.Sarah Bloom Raskin (born April 15, 1961) is an American attorney and regulator who served as the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 2014 to 2017. In their son’s honor, the Raskin family set up the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals with the Greater Washington Community Foundation. The Raskins wrote in their Monday post that their son left behind a note, asking them to "look after each other, the animals, and the global poor." A Federal Communications Commission order requires service providers to get the auto-directing of calls up and running no later than July 2022. That measure, which President Donald Trump signed into law in October, will set up 9-8-8 as a three-digit number to access support resources. More recently, Congress came together to make the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline more easily accessible to those in need. “I didn’t volunteer to be a champion of this issue, but it arose out of the personal experience of being a parent who lost a child to mental illness and suicide,” Smith said in 2004, in one of the most emotional Senate floor speeches in memory. Smith, R-Ore., lost his son Garrett Lee Smith in 2003, he led enactment of landmark legislation that established the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Program, providing grants to state and tribal governments for youth suicide prevention and early intervention efforts across the country. In the past, personal grief has prompted legislative action on Capitol Hill. Tommy Raskin graduated from Amherst College in western Massachusetts and was a second-year student at Harvard Law School, where according to the family his professors have included Bruce Mann, the husband of Democratic Sen. Sarah Bloom Raskin is a former deputy Treasury secretary and Federal Reserve governor. The Raskins, well known not only on Capitol Hill and in the congressman’s Montgomery County-based congressional district but across official Washington, have seen an outpouring of support since their son’s Dec. “The pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable at last for our dear boy, this young man of surpassing promise to our broken world,” the Raskins wrote. “Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a dazzling radiant mind,” the Raskins wrote in the statement, describing his struggle with depression as a “relentless torture in the brain.” Jamie Raskin and his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, remembered their 25-year-old son Tommy in a private funeral ceremony Tuesday, a day after releasing a heartrending public tribute. ![]()
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