It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973. Early life and education
Rivlin is a daughter of the physicist Allan C. In 1971 Alice Rivlin authored Systematic Thinking for Social Action.

She has served as the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the first Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4 1931 in Philadelphia) is an economist a former U.