Director of the United States Mint
The Director of the United States Mint is a presidential appointment that requires a Senate confirmation. David J. Ryder became director in April 2018. He previously served as the mint director from 1992 to 1993.
When the position of the director is vacant, the senior career official of the mint serves as the acting director. Until the appointment of Ryder as director, the Mint had been without an official director since the resignation of Edmund C. Moy in 2011. Richard A. Peterson succeeded Moy and was the longest-serving acting director in the Mint's history. Peterson served between January 2011 and March 2017.
In July 2015, Matthew Rhett Jeppson was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the Mint's 39th director and was given the temporary title of principal deputy director. However, the nomination was never confirmed by the Senate. Jeppson stepped down as principal deputy director in January 2017, then replaced by acting principal deputy director David Motl.
The office of Director has existed since the creation of the Mint by the Coinage Act of 1792. Initially appointed serving at the pleasure of the President of the United States, the Coinage Act of 1873 specified a five-year term for directors. The director operates with general directions provided by the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
List of directors of the United States Mint
| Name | Assumed Office | Left Office | President Appointed By |
| David Rittenhouse | April 1792 | June 1795 | George Washington |
| Henry William de Saussure | July 1795 | October 1795 | George Washington |
| Elias Boudinot | October 1795 | July 1805 | George Washington |
| Robert Patterson | January 1806 | July 1824 | Thomas Jefferson |
| Samuel Moore | July 1824 | July 1835 | James Monroe |
| Robert M. Patterson | May 1835 | July 1851 | Andrew Jackson |
| George Nicholas Eckert | July 1851 | April 1853 | Millard Fillmore |
| Thomas M. Pettit | April 1853 | May 1853 | Franklin Pierce |
| James Ross Snowden | June 1853 | May 1861 | Franklin Pierce |
| James Pollock | May 1861 | September 1866 | Abraham Lincoln |
| William Millward | October 1866 | April 1867 | Andrew Johnson |
| Henry Linderman | April 1867 | May 1869 | Andrew Johnson |
| James Pollock | May 1869 | March 1873 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Henry Linderman | April 1873 | December 1878 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Horatio C. Burchard | February 1879 | June 1885 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| James P. Kimball | July 1885 | October 1889 | Grover Cleveland |
| Edward O. Leech | October 1889 | May 1893 | Benjamin Harrison |
| Robert E. Preston | November 1893 | February 1898 | Grover Cleveland |
| George E. Roberts | February 1898 | July 1907 | William McKinley |
| Frank A. Leach | September 1907 | August 1909 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| A. Piatt Andrew | November 1909 | June 1910 | William Howard Taft |
| George E. Roberts | July 1910 | November 1914 | William Howard Taft |
| Robert W. Woolley | March 1915 | July 1916 | Woodrow Wilson |
| F. H. von Engelken | September 1916 | March 1917 | Woodrow Wilson |
| Raymond T. Baker | March 1917 | March 1922 | Woodrow Wilson |
| Frank Edgar Scobey | March 1922 | September 1923 | Warren G. Harding |
| Robert J. Grant | November 1923 | May 1933 | Calvin Coolidge |
| Nellie Tayloe Ross | May 1933 | April 1953 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| William H. Brett | July 1954 | January 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Eva Adams | October 1961 | August 1969 | John F. Kennedy |
| Mary Brooks | September 1969 | February 1977 | Richard Nixon |
| Stella Hackel Sims | November 1977 | April 1981 | Jimmy Carter |
| Donna Pope | July 1981 | August 1991 | Ronald Reagan |
| David J. Ryder | September 1992 | November 1993 | George H. W. Bush |
| Philip N. Diehl | June 1994 | March 2000 | Bill Clinton |
| Jay W. Johnson | May 2000 | August 2001 | Bill Clinton |
| Henrietta H. Fore | August 2001 | August 2005 | George W. Bush |
| Edmund C. Moy | September 2006 | January 2011 | George W. Bush |
| David J. Ryder | April 2018 | Incumbent | Donald Trump |