Travis Hill is the Acting Chairman of the FDIC Board of Directors. He has served in this role since January 20, 2025.  He was sworn in as Vice Chairman of the FDIC on January 5, 2023. 

Mr. Hill previously worked at the FDIC from 2018 to 2022, as Deputy to the Chairman for Policy and, before that, as Senior Advisor to the Chairman. In these roles, among other responsibilities, he oversaw and coordinated regulatory and policy initiatives at the agency and advised the Chairman on regulatory and policy matters.

Prior to joining the FDIC, Mr. Hill served as Senior Counsel at the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where he worked from 2013 to 2018. In this role, he participated extensively in the drafting and negotiating of numerous bipartisan bills. Before working at the Senate, Mr. Hill worked as a policy analyst at Regions Financial Corporation from 2011 to 2013.

Mr. Hill received a Bachelor of Science from Duke University, where he studied economics and political science, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.

Congressman French Hill has represented Arkansas’s Second Congressional District since January 2015. He currently serves as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in the 119^th Congress. In the 118^th Congress, Chairman Hill served as the Committee’s Vice Chairman and as Chairman of the new subcommittee tasked with overseeing all areas related to digital assets and financial technology.

From 1982 until 1984, Chairman Hill served on the staff of then-U.S. Senator John Tower (R-TX), as well as on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs. He then went on to serve for President George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, at the age of 34, President Bush appointed Chairman Hill to be Executive Secretary to the President’s Economic Policy Council (EPC), where he coordinated all White House economic policy.

Prior to his congressional service, Chairman Hill worked in investments and banking for three decades. Most notably, he was founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corporation from 1999 until 2014, when Delta Trust was sold to Simmons Bank.