Christy Goldsmith Romero

Christy Romero
Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
In office
March 30, 2022  May 31, 2025
PresidentJoe Biden
Donald Trump
Preceded byHeath Tarbert
Succeeded byVacant
Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program
In office
April 1, 2011  March 2022
Acting: April 1, 2011 – February 1, 2012
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Preceded byNeil Barofsky
Succeeded byMelissa Bruce (acting)
Personal details
EducationOld Dominion University (BS)
Brigham Young University, Utah (JD)

Christy Goldsmith Romero is an American lawyer and federal government official. She served as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 2022 to 2025, having been nominated by President Joe Biden.

From 2011 to 2022, she served as the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a federal law enforcement agency and an independent audit watchdog that targets financial institution crime and other fraud, waste, and abuse related to the TARP bailout.

On June 10, 2024 The Wall Street Journal reported that she was expected to be named as the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to replace the outgoing Martin Gruenberg.