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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Distinguished Fellow of American Economic Association (2012)
★William F. Butler Award from New York Association for Business Economics (2025)
★Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service from CSWEP (inaugural recipient 2026)
★Yale Wilbur Cross Medal (1997)
★Honorary Doctor of Social Science degree from Yale (2015)
★UC Berkeley Haas School outstanding teaching award (1985, 1988)
★Janet L. Yellen Chair endowed at Yale School of Management (2018)
★Janet L. Yellen Distinguished Chair in Business at Brandeis University (2025)
Notable Facts
→First woman to serve as U.S. Treasury Secretary (2021-2025)
→First woman to chair the Federal Reserve (2014-2018)
→Only person in U.S. history to lead Treasury, Federal Reserve, and Council of Economic Advisers
→Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor
→President of American Economic Association (2020-2021)
→Distinguished Fellow at Brookings Institution
→Founding member of Climate Leadership Council
→PhD in Economics from Yale University (1971), only woman among 24 graduates
→Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Council on Foreign Relations
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