RALPH F. BOYD, JR.
Executive Vice President, Community Relations, Freddie Mac
President and CEO, Freddie Mac Foundation
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. is Freddie Mac’s executive vice president, Community Relations. He is a member of the company's management committee and reports directly to CEO Charles E. "Ed" Haldeman, Jr. Boyd also serves as president and CEO of the Freddie Mac Foundation. In these dual roles, he oversees one of the national capital region's largest philanthropic programs, which includes corporate giving, employee volunteer activities, and Foundation grant making, while also serving as a member of the Foundation's Investment Committee.
Boyd started at Freddie Mac as executive vice president and general counsel, and head of the external relations and public affairs functions. He also served as a director of the Homeownership Funding Corporations I and II, two Freddie Mac‑affiliated real estate investment trusts.
Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Boyd was a senior partner with the national law firm of Alston & Bird LLP, leading its Washington, D.C. litigation practice. Before that, he served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States for Civil Rights and head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. From 1997 to 2001, Boyd was counsel and then a partner in the Litigation Department of Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston. He also served for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Division of the Boston U.S. Attorney's office. Following law school, Boyd was a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph H. Young, U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland, and then an associate at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray.
Boyd has a long history of involvement in community matters, and currently serves on several non-profit boards. He is chairman of the board of Easter Seals of the Greater Baltimore‑Washington Region, vice chair and secretary of the Center City Public Charter Schools board of directors, and a member of the executive committee of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). He also is a trustee of the National Housing Partnership Foundation (NHPF), a developer and provider of quality, affordable multi-family housing. Boyd serves on NHPF’s audit and investment committees.
Boyd is a director of the DIRECTV Group, Inc., chairman of its audit committee, and a member of its nominating and governance committee. Boyd also served for three years as the U.S. member of the Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – a United Nations human rights treaty body.
Boyd is a graduate of Haverford College and Harvard Law School. In 2001, he received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Suffolk University.
Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and more than five million renters.
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