Brian M. Tomney was nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Inspector General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Sworn into office on March 14, 2022, Mr. Tomney is the third Senate confirmed Inspector General for FHFA.

As Inspector General, Mr. Tomney is the senior official responsible for independent audits, evaluations, investigations, and other oversight activities relating to FHFA’s programs and operations. The Office of Inspector General provides leadership in promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in FHFA programs and preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse.

Prior to serving as Inspector General, Mr. Tomney served as the Head of the Office of Corporate Investigations at Capital One. In this role, Mr. Tomney led a team of researchers and investigators conducting independent investigations into allegations of internal fraud and unethical business practices. Mr. Tomney previously served as the Chief of Staff to the company’s Chief Compliance and Chief Ethics Officer and the Senior Vice President for Operational Risk and Oversight. He also led the governance and independent testing functions in the Global Credit Card Compliance organization. Prior to joining Capital One, Mr. Tomney served in a variety of roles within the U.S. Department of Justice from 2006 to 2017, including: Associate Deputy Attorney General (2016-17); Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General (2015); Counsel for Rule of Law (2009-14); and as a Trial Attorney in the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Criminal Division (2006-09). A native of Massachusetts and long-time resident of Maine, Mr. Tomney’s public service career began in 1990 as a career paramedic/firefighter serving the City of Portland, Maine, until 2003.

Mr. Tomney received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Maine School of Law and his B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of New England. He is an active member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars.

Clinton Jones serves as the General Counsel of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). In February 2021, Jones succeeded Alfred Pollard, Since 2019, Jones served as a Senior Advisor. 

Prior to joining FHFA, he served for 24 years in various senior legal roles at the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services, including General Counsel, Parliamentarian, and Senior Counsel for the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee. Jones was also a Vice President at Fannie Mae and an Attorney Advisor for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  He has been adjunct faculty at Howard University since 1990. Jones received his J.D., Master's degree in City & Regional Planning, and Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

His supervision of FHFA's Office of General Counsel includes work on regulatory matters affecting the housing government-sponsored enterprises, in-house legal issues, litigation matters and relationships with other government agencies and the Administration.

Jones has extensive experience managing FHFA’s operations, including building operations, physical and personnel security programs, emergency and disaster readiness, space utilization management, mail operations, logistics and transportation management, contract management, and catering and conference planning. Before being named Chief Operating Officer, she served as Associate Director for Agency Operations since 2012. She has also served as a contracting officer with a level three certification where she awarded and administered contracts for real estate broker services, real estate legal services and the lease of more than 340,000 square feet of class A (LEED Gold) office space. She has over 35 years of Federal service that includes the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Jones is Chair of Building Development for the Delta Housing Corporation of the District of Columbia, a 501c(3) organization that provides safe, decent and affordable housing for seniors and persons with disabilities. Jones holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting (Cum Laude) from Southeastern University and is a Facilities Management Professional. She is a native Washingtonian residing in Penn Quarters with her husband for over 26 years Charles and their adorable pug Blake Jones.

Naa Awaa Tagoe is the Deputy Director for the Division of Housing Mission and Goals at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). She is responsible for oversight of single-family and multifamily housing policy and regulatory capital policy for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises). She is also responsible for oversight of the affordable housing mission activities and fair lending compliance of the Enterprises’ and the Federal Home Loan Bank System. Naa Awaa also supports the FHFA Director’s responsibilities as a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. She assumed this role in July 2022.

Previously, Naa Awaa served as the Principal Associate Director in the Office of Capital Policy at FHFA responsible for oversight of the Enterprises’ credit risk transfer programs, non-performing loan sales programs, Dodd-Frank Act stress tests, and financial eligibility requirements for approved mortgage insurers, mortgage sellers, and mortgage servicers.​

​Prior to joining the predecessor agency of FHFA in 20​​​03, Naa Awaa held positions in financial services and management consulting. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and her MBA from Stanford University.

Stallings joined FHFA in 2011 and most recently served as Examiner-in-Charge of the Office of Fannie Mae Examinations within the Division of Enterprise Regulation (DER). Previously, he served as the Examiner-in-Charge of the Office of Freddie Mac Examinations and the Boston and Cincinnati FHLBanks.

While serving in different capacities at the FHFA, Stallings also received the Housing Finance Examiner Commission, became an Excellence in Government Fellow, and completed the Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He began his supervisory career with the Office of Thrift Supervision, where he received his Federal Thrift Regulator commission. Stallings received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a focus in Economics from the University of Georgia.

Nina Nichols is the Deputy Director of the Division of Accounting and Financial Standards (DAFS) at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). As the Deputy Director of DAFS, Nichols is responsible for accounting policy, identifying financial institution trends and best practices, engaging with external standard-setters, providing guidance on financial crimes and fraud risk, and refining reporting standards.

Nichols joined FHFA in 2012 as Assistant Deputy Director in the Division of Enterprise Regulation (DER) and subsequently served as Deputy Director of DER. Prior to FHFA, she was a Senior Vice President at JP Morgan Chase, heading the global anti-money laundering function. Previously she held a variety of positions at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including Assistant Director of Compliance in the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation.

Samuel Frumkin serves as FHFA’s Executive Secretary. He brings an extensive familiarity with FHFA’s statutory requirements from his work on a wide range of regulatory, policy, and supervisory issues related to FHFA’s regulated entities since joining FHFA’s Division of Housing Mission and Goals in 2014. Prior to joining FHFA, Frumkin worked for the Consumer Protection Bureau (CFPB), where he was one of the key drafters of the Bureau’s Guidance on Privacy Laws and Reporting Financial Abuse of Older Adults, which was jointly issued by eight federal agencies in September 2013.

Previously, Frumkin worked in the Consumer Compliance Division of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and both the Community Affairs Department and Economics Department of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

He is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government and Yale University.

Dickerson joined FHFA upon its founding in 2008 as the Agency’s first Deputy Director of Enterprise Regulation. Since then, he has held numerous leadership positions throughout his tenure at FHFA, including Examiner-in-Charge of Freddie Mac (November 2015 to April 2018) and Special Supervision Advisor in the Division of Enterprise Regulation (April 2018 to November 2021).

Dickerson spent nearly 11 years at FHFA’s predecessor agency – the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight – serving as Director of Supervision (December 2007 to July 2008) and as Chief Compliance Examiner (December 2003 to December 2007). He graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a degree in Accounting.

Karen Chang has over 15 years of public and private sector experience in mortgage finance. Chang joined FHFA in 2021 with a focus on monitoring the counterparty risk of the Enterprises’ non-bank seller/servicers. Prior to joining FHFA, Chang served in numerous housing policy positions across the federal government, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Economic Council, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In these roles, she focused on a range of issues, including the revised Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage rule, developing foreclosure prevention programs and housing finance reform. She has also held several positions in the private sector, most recently at PennyMac Financial Services where she focused on mortgage insurance, product and pricing strategy. Chang earned her BA in Economics and Political Science from McGill University and her MA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Honorable Sandra L. Thompson was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and was sworn in on June 22, 2022.

Thompson has over 40 years of private and public sector finance experience, with expertise in supervision, consumer protection, risk management, and consumer outreach. Prior to leading the agency, Thompson serv​ed as ​Deputy Director of the Division of Housing Mission and Goal​s (DHMG) since March 2013, overseeing FHFA’s housing and regulatory policy, capital policy, fair lending, and mission-critical activities for the regulated government-sponsored entities of ​​Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks.

Before joining FHFA, Thompson worked at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for more than 23 years in a variety of leadership positions, including as Director of the Division of Risk Management Supervision. 

Thompson is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C.​