Janet Yellen sworn in as Treasury secretary, Janet becomes first US woman treasury secretary

Janet Yellen is sworn in as Treasury secretary, she becomes first US woman treasury secretary.

Vice President Kamala Harris ceremonially swears in Dr. Janet Yellen as Secretary of the Treasury at the White House.

Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th and current United States secretary of the treasury. Previously, she was the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She is the first woman to hold either role. She is a professor emerita at Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She was also the vice-chair of the Federal Reserve from 2010 to 2014.

First woman VP swears-in first woman to head Treasury Dept.

Vice President Kamala Harris -- the nation's first woman vice president -- has ceremonially sworn-in Janet Yellen -- the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in its more than 230-year history.

Yellen was sworn in outside the East side of the White House facing the Department of Treasury. She is now the first person have the distinction of serving as treasury secretary, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and chair of the Federal Reserve.

She was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 84 to 15 on Monday evening.