Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. is Freddie Mac's Executive Vice President, Community Relations, and reports to Chairman and CEO Richard F. Syron. Boyd also is Chairman, President and CEO of the Freddie Mac Foundation, and serves on the Foundation's Investment Committee. In these roles, he oversees one of the national capitol region's most extensive philanthropic programs, which includes corporate giving, employee volunteer activities, and Foundation grant making. Boyd also serves as a director of the Home Ownership Funding Corporation I and II, two real estate investment trust subsidiaries of Freddie Mac.
Boyd started at Freddie Mac as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. In addition to supervising the company's legal operations, he also was responsible for overseeing Freddie Mac's regulatory relations and legislative activities at the federal, state, and local levels, and the company's internal and external communications functions.
Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Boyd was a senior partner 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 as head of the Civil Rights Division, U.S Department of Justice. From 1997 to 2001, Boyd was counsel and then a partner in the Trial and Litigation Department of Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston. During the 1990's, he 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, after which he served as a litigation associate at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray for four years.
Boyd has a long history of involvement in community affairs, and currently serves on several non-profit boards. He is Vice-Chairman of Easter Seals of the Greater Washington-Baltimore Region, and a Trustee of the National Housing Partnership Foundation (NHPF), a non-profit developer and provider of quality, affordable multi-family housing. In addition, Boyd chairs NHPF's Audit Committee, and is a member of NHPF's Investment Committee. He also is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Association of People with Disabilities, and serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Center City Public Charter Schools.
Boyd is a Director of the DIRECTV Group, Inc., and a member of its Audit and Nominating and Governance committees. He previously served as the U.S. member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – a Geneva-based United Nations human rights treaty compliance body.
Boyd is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, and Haverford College. He received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the Suffolk University Law School.
Created by Freddie Mac in 1991, the Freddie Mac Foundation is dedicated to making home a place where children and their families thrive. As the largest corporate funder in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Freddie Mac and the Freddie Mac Foundation have invested more than $321 million in organizations serving the community.
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